Oh, now we have the brainiac Thought Police saying that if a word isn't in the dictionary then it doesn't count as a word. Maybe it doesn't even exist since it's not in the word bible. It doesn't surprise me that you can't figure out what a victimist is since your brainwasher hasn't told you what to believe about the truth of this idea yet.
The dictionary is always behind the times since a panel of language usage experts have to agree on the meaning and usage of a new word. Language evolves faster than the dictionary. If you look in the dictionary you will see the suffix "-ist" listed. Look under "i". From dictionary.com:
-ist suff.
1. a. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
b. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
2. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
3. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist.
4. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist.
In this case I mean to use the word according to the third definition but you live the word in accord with the fourth definition.
If you don't understand "victim" I'll let you do your own make-up homework since you were so lazy about trying to understand the "ist" part of the word.
As for "-centric", another suffix. I'll save your lazy ass the trouble of typing in another search -- in case you are dyslexic or disinclined. (look it up)
-centric suff.
1. Having a specified kind or number of centers: polycentric.
2. Having a specified object as the center: geocentric.
3. Focused on or viewed in terms of a specified area, subject, or culture: anthropocentric; Afrocentric.
Here I am using the third part of the definition. If all of this is beyond your ability with the english language and the ways of finding the meanings of words then perhaps you should go to a library and ask one of the reference desk librarians to help you with it. I realize that schools have deteriorated over the last couple of decades but this may have as more to do with the popularity of video games and television than the quality of our teachers and educational institutions.
I had a great teacher at a local high school who taught us the meaning of the word "ethnocentric" during the first week of our junior year Sociology class. Its a powerful word that opened my mind to the idea that a wise person tries to see beyond the limits of the small part of the world that s/he grew up in. Travel, wide ranging reading and an ability to see past the bullshit of the current "groupthink" are some methods of opening to the more grand scale of living your life and being open and flexible... that and nuking Fox News.
Lazy Literalist Victimist
Date Edited: 22 Sep 2005 04:21:36 PM
The dictionary is always behind the times since a panel of language usage experts have to agree on the meaning and usage of a new word. Language evolves faster than the dictionary. If you look in the dictionary you will see the suffix "-ist" listed. Look under "i". From dictionary.com:
-ist
suff.
1. a. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
b. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
2. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
3. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist.
4. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist.
In this case I mean to use the word according to the third definition but you live the word in accord with the fourth definition.
If you don't understand "victim" I'll let you do your own make-up homework since you were so lazy about trying to understand the "ist" part of the word.
As for "-centric", another suffix. I'll save your lazy ass the trouble of typing in another search -- in case you are dyslexic or disinclined. (look it up)
-centric
suff.
1. Having a specified kind or number of centers: polycentric.
2. Having a specified object as the center: geocentric.
3. Focused on or viewed in terms of a specified area, subject, or culture: anthropocentric; Afrocentric.
Here I am using the third part of the definition. If all of this is beyond your ability with the english language and the ways of finding the meanings of words then perhaps you should go to a library and ask one of the reference desk librarians to help you with it. I realize that schools have deteriorated over the last couple of decades but this may have as more to do with the popularity of video games and television than the quality of our teachers and educational institutions.
I had a great teacher at a local high school who taught us the meaning of the word "ethnocentric" during the first week of our junior year Sociology class. Its a powerful word that opened my mind to the idea that a wise person tries to see beyond the limits of the small part of the world that s/he grew up in. Travel, wide ranging reading and an ability to see past the bullshit of the current "groupthink" are some methods of opening to the more grand scale of living your life and being open and flexible... that and nuking Fox News.
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