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This also reminded me of that 'How to Speak and Write Postmodern' thing:
"Sometimes you might be in a hurry and won't have the time to muster
even the minimum number of postmodern synonyms and neologisms needed
to avoid public disgrace. Remember, saying the wrong thing is
acceptable if you say it the right way.
This brings me to a secondimportant strategy in speaking postmodern, which is to use as many suffixes, prefixes, hyphens, slashes, underlinings and anything else your computer (an absolute must to write postmodern) can dish out.
You can make a quick reference chart to avoid time delays. Make
three columns. In column A put your prefixes; post-, hyper-, pre-,
de-, dis-, re-, ex-, and counter-.
In column B go your suffixes and related endings; -ism, -itis, -iality, -ation, -itivity, and -tricity.
In column C add a series of well-respected names that
make for impressive adjectives or schools of thought, for example,
Barthes (Barthesian), Foucault (Foucauldian, Foucauldianism),
Derrida (Derridean, Derrideanism)." |
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