@mekkaokereke I'm struggling as to why anyone thinks those are uncommon as well. Going through school in the US, some of these are the kinds of words we'd have as weekly vocab both in grade school and high school that we'd even talk about being surprised they entered our own vernacular, and enjoyed their usage. It boggles that people think "delve" is too 'fancy'.
I get suspicious of trends over on Twitter frequently, and this is no different, that it feels sparked by malicious anti-intellectual blathering with the veil of "is it like chatGPT" as a foil for some intent. I hadn't considered "racism" as the reason though until this thread, and it sure fits like a snug puzzle piece! :kay_frustrated:
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