The word theory has become (or at best is becoming) a clusterfuck of whatever, much like the word literally.
And we don’t even have (normal/easy/exact) replacements for those words.
Those words were already the scientific terms for nerds. But normies normied them into normedom, literally theorised into a fuck.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Mine is envy vs jealousy.
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jealousy is just envious because it didn’t make it onto the Seven Deadly Sins.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Envy is the emotion behind coveting.