Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international
by alienicecream on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:08PM
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If it was trite, there wouldn't be as much resistance to it. It's important to use words accurately. Contentious, controversial, unpopular, iconoclastic maybe, not trite.
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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international
by lapcat on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:39PM
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> If it was trite, there wouldn't be as much resistance to it.
How does that follow? It's a longstanding controversy. The same arguments have been made over and over again.
> It's important to use words accurately. Contentious, controversial, unpopular, iconoclastic maybe, not trite.
It can be both trite and controversial. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939106