I used to worry a lot, if I was writing fantasy for example, about using words like ‘philistine’, which means according to Google ‘a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts’. It’s also of course a …
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100 Words For Stupid
Ever hear that thing that eskimoes have a hundred words for snow? I don’t know if it’s true or not, but the idea I suppose is that there’s such an abundance of snow where they live that they naturally place …