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wedrifid comments on What is the best programming language? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 May 2012 06:35:01PM 1 point [-]

Briefly, I expect people talking about status to be [...] or stopping at an overabstraction while thinking they understand a complex issue.

It is certainly a word that I have seen used as a curiosity stopper.