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The root of the matter (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a word that means "saying lots of words, without actually saying anything"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Grandiloquent, or circumlocution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Both great words! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

“I was making love to my wife and she started moaning, “Deeper! Deeper!”, so I started whispering Nietzsche quotes in her ear. ‘Man is a rope stretched over the abyss’. and she said, “Whoa! I’m trying to get off over here!” - Dennis Miller

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

what.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Did you ask an AI for meme ideas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Upvoting because of Aubrey Plaza

What does this mean tho?
An idea cannot fight weapons/power without public support. And for public support it needs to be daring enough point out the opponents? And for this the idea needs to be rooted on human life?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

From Marx: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm