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Okay, I don't know if I should be the one to write this. I did, just today on this very forum, learn the difference between conjugation and declension, so my vocabulary is not without reproach. But really, when a major motion picture company like Twentieth Century Fox releases a product, how does it get packaged and produced with a stupid made up word emblazoned in large, unfriendly letters across the front? Especially when a perfectly serviceable word like TETRALOGY already exists. Did no one in the entire company take a college English course? Even if I liked those movies enough to own them, I don't think I could have that word staring out at me from my DVD collection.
Sorry. Just had a vocab-nazi moment. Carry on.
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maybe i underestimate the human race, but in defense of the marketers, i'm willing to bet that the average american a)wouldn't know what a tetrology was if it bit them in the face, b)would not possess enough deductive reasoning to figure it out, and c)would never, ever think to pick up a dictionary.
but i'm just bitter because i have to deal with these people all night long.
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Yeah the US is great for that type of thing... Here is something that should bother you a bit more though.
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