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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

All right so you were just being pedantic.

Because my examples did not make it sound appealing lol

And I personally prefer to use neutral words, as folks have a lot of defense mechanisms toward words with negative connotations.

Meaning, they will just tune it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

Yes, you're right. I'm being pedantic. I should have forewarned that, my bad.

And you're also right that people tend to tune out negative words. At first, sure. But, assuming you're American, I bet I could cause some cognitive dissonance in you if you I use the right ones. Isolationism isn't one of those yet, but in 30 years we need that word to sound the same as "Feudalism"