Ghodsee is annoyed by fads such as the rejection of words ending in -ism, which are now passé and must be replaced by words ending in -ality; this appears to represent some fine distinction. She notes the inflationist tendency of terms based on the suffix of the day—the study of social and political oppression becomes the study of “oppressivities,” while educational reforms become “educativities”—or equally faddish prefixes, with “intereducationality” joining the many terms that begin with bio-, cyber-, hetero-, homo-, or techno-. “Don’t worry if you’re not entirely sure what a term means,”
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