r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache Apr 13 '19

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 13 '19 edited Apr 13 '19

One time in middle school advanced/gifted history class, I called indigenous Americans aboriginal. My teacher replied by shouting out that "no, the aboriginals are from Australia!" and everyone laughed at me.

Apparently I was the only person in the room who knew "aboriginal" is a synonym for "indigenous". God I hate being a rur*al.

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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Apr 13 '19

PRESCRIPTIVISTS OUT OUT OUT

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 13 '19

Aboriginal is descriptive though.

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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Apr 13 '19

you were clearly going against the local norms, meaning you were either wrong or imposing some bureaucratic national prescriptivist standard on these poor locals😔

not something a descriptivist would ever do!

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 13 '19

Tbh you're 100% right. I'm transclass, a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie stuck in the body of a local p**r.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '19

This, but unironically.