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   Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 11:01:29 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫

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   • twizzay

   @pixx @RL_Dane @sotolf @twizzay
   I did not know that word, thank you. :)

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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 11:01:26 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     • twizzay

     @benjaminhollon @pixx @sotolf @twizzay

     Definition, yes. But an etymology is more useful than just a definition. At least, I find them more useful, and I'm more likely to remember a word if I know where it comes from.

     fu repeated this.
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     • twizzay

     @RL_Dane @pixx @sotolf @twizzay
     Ahh it was an etymology. I didn't read it because I thought it was redundant. ;)

     https://xkcd.com/1012/

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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 11:01:27 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     @benjaminhollon @pixx @sotolf @twizzay

     etymonline has some helpful info - it comes from latin res meaning "thing." So, basically, thing-ification.

     reification (n.)

     1846, "mental act of materializing (a person or concept), objectivization, the regarding or treating of an idea as a
     thing," from Latin re-, stem of res "thing" (see re), + -fication "a making or causing." In Marxist writing,
     "depersonalization," translating German Verdinglichung.
     https://www.etymonline.com/word/reification

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     @RL_Dane @pixx @sotolf @twizzay
     He… uh… just defined it. XD