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reignonyourparade
Nov 15, 2012

jit bull transpile posted:

She, and no. "virtuous cycle" means a cyclical process that is self perpetuating. I know some prescriptivists argue that cycles with negative effects should only be called "vicious cycles", but I ain't no prescriptivist.

Given I've actually heard vicious cycle in the real world for exactly that meaning many many times that doesn't exactly strike me as a prescriptivist position. Honestly "no no the CORRECT term for that is still 'virtuous cycle'" strikes me as an even MORE prescriptivist position.

(Which is not to say you can't use whatever you yourself prefer, it just struck me as funny reasoning.)

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