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Is there a word, or how would you describe, the practice of someone using a specific term or idea haphazardly to make a different point?
I heard a guy say "this might sound Kantian" and went on to say something generic about rule-following.
And I was reading an alt right blog and the author used Heidegger's terms in a patchwork sort of way where if you read them as being precise uses, the sentences became unreadable.

>> No.15127391

>>15127276
Yeah, its called modernization... words are less about definition and more about their weight as feelings and political correctness.

Thank the jews

>> No.15127397

>>15127391
For example ...

“That’s awesome!”

>> No.15127419

>>15127276
Yeah, its called balkanization... racism is less about personal identification and more about their weight as feelings and political representativeness

>> No.15127433

misattribution?

>> No.15127445

>>15127276
frivolous
pedantic
flippant

>> No.15127468

>>15127276
pseudery

>> No.15127475

Sounds like synecdoche and/or metonymy, but specifically a vague or bad use of them. Not sure if there's a word specifically for sloppy synecdoche. You could say interesting things about how metaphors still "work" even if they're "sloppy" so long as the read ends up "getting what you mean" when you use them. Lots of fast-and-loose pomo lit uses this, calling on authors' names (or similar references) to stand in for whole discourses/styles of thinking/whatever. It's part of why reading pomo is so fucking annoying sometimes, because you have to maintain this hazy field of references all stabilizing one another in order to understand what is actually "meant overall."

It could also be related to Foucault's author-function, for that reason.

>> No.15127478

>>15127276
Having a poor understanding of what words mean. Ignorance.

>> No.15127497

>>15127391
>>15127419
is this the new /lit/ meme?

>> No.15127507

catachresis

or, more metaphorically, subject to how offensive you found the misuse:
perversion
desecration

>> No.15127514

>>15127497
Yeah, its called shitposting... words are less about definition and more about their weight as feelings and political correctness.
Thank sneed

>> No.15127527

>>15127514
you were clever the first two times

>> No.15127530

Yeah, its called meming ... jokes are less about humour and more about their weight as feelings and political correctness.

>> No.15127555

It's actually the kind of behaviour you see on reddit and youtube comments where idiots think simply repeating the same phrase but changing a few words constitutes a humorous retort.

>> No.15127620

>>15127514
Yeah, its called sneeding ... words are less about definition and more about how they are used in The World and are hermeneutically to obtain authentic reintegration into the discourse. This might sound Derridian, but I just invented the term "sneeding" right now. It means something like: the misuse of a term to draw attention to the topic, thus highlighting its importance while simultaneously dismissing it as non-nonsensical and formerly "chucking".

>> No.15127638

>>15127620
>while simultaneously dismissing it as non-nonsensical and formerly "chucking".
this is the first time i have ever actually genuinely laughed at a sneed meme

>> No.15127709

Best answers to OP:
>>15127445
>>15127468
>>15127475
>>15127478
>>15127507

Best joke in thread:
>>15127555
What the best descriptor for that?

>> No.15127715

>>15127709
Hello