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Thanks for sharing Zhang's piece. That's the kind of simplistic (yet crucial) thinking that we almost always tend to overlook.


FYI "simplistic" is pejorative


simplistic can be pejorative, but in this case it doesn't seem to be, atleast from my perspective

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative > A term can be regarded as pejorative in some social groups but not in others, e.g., hacker is a term used for computer criminals as well as quick and clever computer experts.


downvotes?

For providing a factual statement that the word simplistic isn't always perjorative?


Well, I didn't downvote you, but I feel like I should reply...

Your comment was essentially of the form "Some Xs are Ys, Z is an X, therefore Z is a Y", which is of course wrong. "Simplistic" is not one of those words whose pejorativeness depends on context.


Thanks for the response. I disagree though:)

Simplistic doesn't have to have a negative connotation. Infact the word simplistic can have, and very often does, a very positive connotation.

Perhaps I'm just getting the definition of pejorative wrong?


The dictionary's on my side, but maybe usage is changing.


I agree.




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