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I'd like to look at that phrase "passive-aggressive". It doesn't seem to be being used in quite the traditional way. In traditional discourse, it means something like this:
Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency.
When used recently by the aggrieved of Barbelith, it seems to mean "cheating by using words made of letters".
I don't think there is anything passive about the aggression Jack Fear was displaying towards you, John. His aggression was quite clear, and quite active. To describe it as "passive-aggressive", in order to sell to oneself the idea that his actions were somehow cowardly, deceitful and otherwise inferior to one's own good, honest and proper Anglo-Saxon bluntness, would be the action of, and I seek to gain your respect by avoiding any contemptibly effete mincing of words, a fucking idiot.
Forgive my directness, but people using long words they do not understand gets right on my tits. |
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