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    5 months ago

    I’ve only been able to get over his misuse of “obviate” by assuming the word evolved in a couple hundred years because not enough people knew its meaning in the 21st century.

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      I had to look it up I have never heard this word used besides in this poem and just assumed it meant “makes obvious” but I learned something new today! It means “to remove, prevent or avoid” for those like me who did not know.

      P.S. Tiger KNEEE Sagat for SF6 ASAP

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        It might’ve been an SAT (or maybe GRE) word, but I think I only knew it bc I’m (or at least was) a huge lit nerd ;)

        I think the last SF I played was on SNES haha-- not sure why Sagat’s voice popped into my head when I was signing up for lemmy