• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Wow it’s like they’re actively trying to make people dumber and not even hiding it anymore

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        5 months ago

        It does if that “evolution” consists of removing large or complex words simply because they’re “too hard”

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          5 months ago

          They aren’t removed because they’re too hard, they’re removed because they’re inconvenient. They are removed when there is a more succinct and/or better understood alternative, for example “evolution” doesn’t have a good alternative to replace it. Memorizing relatively obscure words isn’t intellectual, and as simple building blocks as possible can often better communicate more complex ideas. There’s a reason C is better liked than C++