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reification
I love it. A word composed of nothing but affixes.
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From M-W's Collegiate:
Main Entry: ob·jec·ti·fy
Pronunciation: &b-'jek-t&-"fI
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fy·ing
Date: circa 1837
1 : to treat as an object or cause to have objective reality
2 : to give expression to (as an abstract notion, feeling, or ideal) in a form that can be experienced by others <it is the essence of the fairy tale to objectify differing facets of the child's emotional experience -- John Updike>
- ob·jec·ti·fi·ca·tion /-"jek-t&-f&-'kA-sh&n/ noun
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here I would say...
leafification.
ok, ok, I am joking
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That's funny, emanuela. And it sounds good in English.
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I think i like Poster: i like belligerentyouth's --'Objectification' is so simple, I guess that's right.
i think that is the psycological term for it.. psychotics tend to do it.. they are unable to see others as human, they objectify them..
societies do it too, if you make the other in your society an object-- not quite a real human, then, you don't feel guilty making them into slaves, or killing them, or starving them.. (pick a country-- US, Germany, England (viz Irish)) and with 10 seconds more time, i could think of a dozen other countries that have done it.
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Sorry, and I may be thick, but what about antipersonification? If you want the exact and diametric opposite, that is.
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what about antipersonification? If you want the exact and diametric opposite, that is.
Well, I spose if all you want is the exact and diametric opposite, and don't give a fetid dingo's kidney about what it means...
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He said he wanted to opposite of personification. I gave it to him. Complaints? Bleedin' pedants. Never there when you want them, always around when you don't. What's wrong with alt-usage-English anyway? Any fool can pick a nit or zero nits or even a damned bushel of them if they want. Honestly, I mean, I just give up.
Oh, and what, precisely, is a pair of foetid (note the spelling you Yank nekulturny basket) dingo's kidneys worth on the market today, anyway, hmmm?
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Any fool can pick a nit or zero nits or even a damned bushel of them if they want
Well, Harrumph®! and double Harrumph®! Used to was nit picking was the glue that held society together. Now it's thrown around like any common insult. And I, sirrah, am not just any fool; I am a very particular Fool!
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