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| author | yctct <yctct@yctct.com> | 2025-04-06 17:49:53 +0200 |
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| committer | yctct <yctct@yctct.com> | 2025-04-06 17:49:53 +0200 |
| commit | 7c0c2f83a3c7de03be9c5206e0e028ea3d845623 (patch) | |
| tree | c975865d544b22b0b426115517cafbecf651c595 | |
| parent | 8c6463f05a1e3ccd4db29ebcce0468b6ea1b64fc (diff) | |
Remove blurb on sophistry
| -rw-r--r-- | index.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ PS: These are other flyers: [low-data website](/low-data_website.pdf), [low-data *Last updated in April 2025.* -When I see a website that is unnecessary sophisticated, I feel I am being mislead. + <p xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" >Text by yctct</a> is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer" style="display:inline-block;">CC BY-SA 4.0<img style="height:16px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svg?ref=chooser-v1"><img style="height:16px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1"><img style="height:16px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/sa.svg?ref=chooser-v1"></a></p> -When I see a website that is unnecessarily sophisticated, I feel I am being mislead. For the ancient Greeks thought of sophists (that is the root of sophisticated) as rethoricians who (mis)lead his public to believe something through a fallacious-yet-convincing reasoning. The etymology dictionary says early usage of sophisticate in English circa 1500 implied "altered dishonestly." In my mind, sophisticated resonates with bamboozling. +Image credit: *white rabbit* by le marteau rêveur. <p xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" ><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="https://plaintext.website">This webpage</a> by <a href="https://yctct.com/">yctct</a> is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer" style="display:inline-block;">CC BY-ND 4.0<img style="height:22px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svg?ref=chooser-v1"><img style="height:22px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1"><img style="height:22px!important;margin-left:3px;vertical-align:text-bottom;" src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1"></a></p> |
