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Two Weird Words

Here’s the title of a book from the educational world, Dystopic Optimism and Postalgic Realism in University Life.  What on earth does this mean?

Dystopic: referencing an imaginary place or situation in which everything in society is extremely bad.

Postalgic - The good old days yet to come. (compare: nostalgic)

So, it seems like this is an academic crisis book about what in university life is now not good but promoting optimism that it will be better in the future.  Wow.  Both words are not really in the dictionary.  This does not stop academic types. They like big words no one understands.  Sells  books. Makes them feel smart.

Trivial usage: I feel so postaligic about taking out the trash this morning, which will be collected this afternoon. This evening, I will have nostalgic twinges about my now gone-forever trash. 


Here are two words you can simply forget.  😊
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