the whole hitting kids in the head with a cane thing and threatening peers with a red-hot fire poker
yours is definitely not an orthodox definition
as by the word’s very definition and etymological heritage it means anger and bile
but like I said
I don’t engage in discussions about meanings of words
precisely because you can take a word and say that to you it means this or that
or whatever you want
and I will not convince you of otherwise because I can’t
and also because I don’t care
a square and a circle are very simple geometric shapes with clearly defined formulas
which is allowed by their simplicity
evidently by cutting out the corners of a square repeatedly
you change that shape from square to octagon, to hexadecagon, etc etc
and you can continue to section of edges infinitely
until from a macro perspective the shape is indistinguishable from a circle
but it is still not a circle
thus the shape is at any given point moving closer to being a circle and having as its ascendant a square
though by definition it is neither
even if it looks just like one
and that is just a 2D shape
a human being’s emotions, behaviors, propensities
are a “shape” of multiple axis and infinite graduations from one side of each spectrum to another
you could hardly know enough about that shape to even consider naming it
this is a subject in which words fail
you give me a word such as cholera, which to you has a topographic coordinate determined by your personality
and it arrives to me in a completely different coordinate
and yet we will talk about it with the assumption that we both mean the same thing
cuz it’s the best we’ve got
words are unfortunately our only vehicle for making magic brain stuff come out
the role of the statistical analysis provided by psychometric
is to minimize the role of the ambiguity of language
from the study of personality traits
i did make that argument
i guess it was too subtle
it was here