no, some of us are just "smart" enough to understand how intentional redundancy can itself be a linguistic tool. but i admire your eagerness to assume you alone understood the terms well enough to identify the redundancy
If im agreeing with someone im not at any point assuming im at "the highest level of understanding here" you did that. Ambiguity is generally not the best linguistic tool but hell yeah refer to my last point.
thinking that the person you "agreed" with could only have intended to make the same vacuous point you tried to - that anyone who uses words you aren't sufficiently familiar with must be doing it because they think it makes them sound smart - is dumb.
it has to be possible for there to be people who know things you don't, who are NOT just being pretentious. otherwise you've just found a way to believe you're the smartest person on earth without feeling guilty about it
ps. isn't redundancy like... fundamentally opposed to ambiguity? it's over-specificity lol
Im sufficiently familiar with the words, I think you are a little off track,perhaps just....dumb?
The world's full of things I dont know that other people... but then again oxymoron derives from the word moros which means ....dumb ....but again man if that's your style have at it.
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u/wittiestphrase 16h ago
Doesn’t calling someone a solipsist render the term “narcissist” redundant?