Re:Claude's Character
by yard2010 on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:35AM
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"Open mindedness - is that even a word?"
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It seems so. The Wiktionary entry [1] has existed since 2007 and lists translations to several languages. The French one is quite common, it makes sense that English has a counterpart.
have you considered that you may hold the opposite attribute?
Re:Claude's Character
by idiotsecant on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:49AM
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You've never heard that phrase? Its pretty common.
Why would it not be? You can form "open-mindedness" from "open minded" the same you can form "yellowness" from "yellow" or "coldness" from "cold". It's a valid way to make a word from almost any adjective. Syntactically it's weird because unlike most other Germanic languages English likes to put spaces into compound words. But that hasn't stopped open-mindedness from catching on and getting mentioned in dictionaries.
I suppose the audience here never watched The Office.