wotd: abstruse
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2007/06/25.html
after Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha (and not the GREs) reminded me that this word exists, I started to really like it. ("You said I was too abstruse, I thought it was just some kind of bird..." or something like that).
Fr next week's WOTD, I need a word to describe abstruse's reflexivity. Hopefully it will be something as cool and ridiculous as "onomatopoeia," though I imagine it's probably some obscure linguistics term... even worse one of those words Chomsky made up.
In a side note, science is abstruse in order to maintain elitism and prevent cross-disciplinary communication or ... progress. Comments?
after Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha (and not the GREs) reminded me that this word exists, I started to really like it. ("You said I was too abstruse, I thought it was just some kind of bird..." or something like that).
Fr next week's WOTD, I need a word to describe abstruse's reflexivity. Hopefully it will be something as cool and ridiculous as "onomatopoeia," though I imagine it's probably some obscure linguistics term... even worse one of those words Chomsky made up.
In a side note, science is abstruse in order to maintain elitism and prevent cross-disciplinary communication or ... progress. Comments?
posted by FretlessC at 2:00 PM
1 Comments:
i think it's just because it's really hard...or maybe we're going about it the wrong way so it's gotten all complicated. you should look into stephan wolfram ideas on this.
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