• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Cool. And the literal definition of nepotism is granting advantage, priviledge or friends to relatives or friends in an occupation or field. So it doesn’t matter that it’s being used for parent - children mostly when it covers all.

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        5 months ago

        They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.

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          5 months ago

          I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.