Tag: Language
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BIOPHILIA
I learned a new word today: biophilia. I was standing at our beach at low tide as the sun was rising to my back and I wondered why I found the scene was so calming, so serene. So just for fun I pulled out my phone and asked my mate ChatGPT, not expecting to get a proper answer to what I thought was a rather abstract question. In fact, I got a rather extraordinary in-depth reason which delved into the rhythm of waves, the colour blue, the white noise effect, the…
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WHATABOUTISM
For a number of weeks now as I’ve observed the political debate in the United States I’ve been searching for a certain term. A term used to describe a behaviour used by some in an argument to point out the opposing view’s hypocrisy. I found the term I was looking for: whatboutism or the UK’s version or whataboutery. It’s an English and politicised term for the Latin Tu quoque, which means ‘you too’. Whataboutism is a term that probably entered the English language as a result a 2008 article in The…
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