What’s Wrong with Weird? | Commonweal Magazine
To my mind, a great translation of ineptia is “weirdness.” The “awkward” or “tedious” or “weird” speaker veers into uncomfortable topics. He can’t read the room. And it’s more than an inability to make small talk that makes one inept in this sense. The ancient rhetorical theorists often drew parallels between virtues of speech and […]
To my mind, a great translation of ineptia is “weirdness.” The “awkward” or “tedious” or “weird” speaker veers into uncomfortable topics. He can’t read the room. And it’s more than an inability to make small talk that makes one inept in this sense. The ancient rhetorical theorists often drew parallels between virtues of speech and […]
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