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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2004-10-12 09:58 pm

a confession from the frontlines of pre-post-post-modernism

I used the word "hegemonic" tonight. And not even ironically.

I feel so dirty.

[identity profile] clockwise.livejournal.com 2004-10-13 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't this really more of a hegemonoexploitation of language?

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2004-10-13 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
*sniffs* I think two neologisms is quite enough for one day, thanks. We're not speaking German.

:-)

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--Ben

[identity profile] foreign-devilry.livejournal.com 2004-10-14 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm, the language that brought us "gesamtkunstwerk." It's too bad English can't do that. maybe We should start capitalizing all the Nouns too...

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2004-10-14 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
capitalize Nouns will not. Crazy Language german is.

yrs--
--Ben

P.S. I just want "le" in English. Like they have in Singapore.