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He's run out of idioms and now he's just repeating some of them

We already did colours what the fuck

There was a whole colors section

Curried favor is not an idiom you dumb fuck

Oh boy time for another obnoxious 10 page rant

Some of these ones ALSO don't seem like they're idioms so much as they are

Insults

Also why does he keep saying homo economicus

That's nothing

You just made up a name for humans that's stupid

Man I wanted a book about idioms I did not want a 10 page (I counted) rant in defense of Adam Smith and Capitalism

Man shut the fuck up about long books taking too long to read your book is 270 pages and if you removed the weird pseudo-essays at the start of each section where you wax poetic about some dumb shit for 10 pages it would be 70 pages max

Idk man I just kinda think if you're gonna talk about how you think Adam Smith has been misinterpreted that you should have at least read the 500 page work if not the 900 page one.

Some of these I wouldn't necessarily call idioms

They're just translations of a phrase that means the same thing as the English phase but the translator chose to use slightly weird wording

Also Pinker's race science weirdness isn't like New

Idk I just would not have Cited Him

No man I don't think swearing involves more ancient parts of the brain just bc some stroke victims retain the ability to swear but lose the ability to speak coherently

Not only is Stephen Pinker a weird race science asshole he's also a dumbass

Hey uh

Isn't Stephen Pinker the guy who just recently went "yeah I believe in race science" out loud or

Full offense but neurotypicals are not nearly as good at reading facial expressions as they think they are

I'm gonna be real man idk if I'd consider "to have blue nails" in Hindi meaning "to be near death" to be an idiom

That's literally a thing that happens when many people are old and on their way to death

Idk man I just feel like you can't do a section about colour idioms and not uh

Go into the implicit bias of all the idioms about things being white being good and things being black being bad

I find it much more annoying when an author goes out of their way to *avoid* commonly used metaphors and idioms actually.

Like have you read Orwell? Man is OBNOXIOUS.

Weird how people always go "maybe the real fascism is Not Being Rude to Marginalised People"

Look man George Orwell had a handful of good arguments but he was mostly a dipshit idiot and I am actively on social media. I can assure you people are NOT "self thought policing" 🙄

Idk if I'd say Kafka "decried" and "stood against" things that we'd describe as kafkaesque but

Go off I guess

Man just said "thought image" instead of "idea" so that's

Something I guess

Not sure what

I mean if I was going to talk about how smart can mean "stings" I might just mention that that's literally a definition that still exists and people say shit like "that smarts" but idk that's just me the guy who didn't spend an entire 5 pages talking about "linguistic phrenology"

Genuinely if you just cut these bits at the start of each section where the author gives his stupid rambling opinions the book would improve by at least 25%

More if he actually explained cultural reasons for certain idioms

Also does this dipshit know that implicit and innate are not the same word? Like unconscious bias is still learned lmao

Also the IAT's accuracy and validity is sketchy at best, hope this helps!

1. A chapter ago you were talking about fucking “linguistic phrenology”
2. “Humans have bias” is not “not PC” what the fuck are you talking about

I think this would be more interesting if the author talked a bit about cultural reasons for these idioms and less about "linguistic phrenology"

Why is he talking about "linguistic phrenology" now the fuck

Man just called flat affect "inhuman" so as an autistic person that doesn't feel great

Like I know he's talking about Botox but like

What if you weren't ableist for no reason in the idiom book

Man just write the idioms down and stop waxing poetic about body language pseudoscience