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Re:Claude's Character by yard2010 on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:35AM (#40631420)
"Open mindedness - is that even a word?"
Re:Claude's Character by jraph on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:19AM (#40631649)
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.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/open-mindedness

Re:Claude's Character by cobbzilla on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:40AM (#40632945)
have you considered that you may hold the opposite attribute?
Re:Claude's Character by idiotsecant on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:49AM (#40633019)
You've never heard that phrase? Its pretty common.
Re:Claude's Character by wongarsu on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:57AM (#40633107)
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.
Re:Claude's Character by shlubbert on Monday June 10, 2024 @09:57AM (#40633749)
I suppose the audience here never watched The Office.
Re:Claude's Character by TeMPOraL on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:08PM (#40637269)
It's English. Any verb can be nouned, and you can verb any noun, and people will understand you just fine. It's a feature, perhaps more cultural than linguistic, but a feature nonetheless.