I was watching random youtube video when someone said something unfamiliar, so I looked it up (and arguably anyone can do this with any word), and I found out more about the usage and context because the person used it slightly differently from the root word that I found.
The word Saccharine comes from Latin saccharum meaning “sugar” and is used for things that are sweet or sweet tasting.
However the word has evolved in contemporary sense (in the last few hundred or so years) to mean ‘overly’ sweet or ‘sickeningly’ sweet to the point you dislike it or it’s too much (it’s too sweet).
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saccharine#word-history
Which might be a great word for people who don’t like overly sweet things, as seeing as the candy engineers and flavor scientists have improved their craft and made things very very sweet along with artificial sweeteners (atleast in the state of candied goods in America).
This word can also be used to describe feelings, when watching a movie or show or having an experience that is overly sweet, perhaps overly whimsical or joyish. A very good word for the cynics and curmudgeons and corrupted incorrigible persons of the world that have loath and disdain for all things. You know, those who don’t like fairytale endings because either they project their own suffering to all things or view the fairytale as too unrealistic and not grounded in their reference reality making deluded others become possessed into chasing an unattainable fever dream.
Just a short blurb sharing what I did and what anyone can do when they come across a word that they find interesting to expand their vocabulary. One of (arguably too many) markers for intelligence is the command and control of a language (it doesn’t have to be english), and that increases with mastery and uses/usage, allowing one to express succinctly their ideas and feelings into the formative word.
Being able to say exactly what you mean, and even saying double or triple entendres for the connotations of what you say, is very much an important faculty of communication. If it doesn’t make you ‘smart’, it atleast makes you ‘seem’ more smart (but only if you use the words correctly and if the communication is conveyed properly).
As a side note, when dealing with the less-blunt political world and spies, people often speak in coded languages or indirect manners rather than directly. This is partly to avoid getting caught, but also to create plausible deniability in intentions and inferences to help not leave incriminating evidence. The implication of a threat is more powerful and less public-morale-consuming than a direct declaration of a threat.
It’s important to draw references for direct and indirect implications when any world leader speaks or when there is a business negotiation or parlay. There’s a lot of hidden meanings on the table whether intended or not.
-What I mean by unintended, is that sometimes people say something that leaves open a loophole for exploitation or results in further down stream effects that are leverage points. Just think how can you ‘sea-lawyer’ your way to appease allied parties while still following suit with words at play.
Like if a world leader says they’ll control and restrict airspace around an enemy nation, that enemy nation can take that as a threat that they intend to shoot down outgoing or incoming aircraft and provide grounds of justification to act in kind. It’s a very logical narrative.
-And there’s thousands and thousands of these messages and statements being made every month (public or in private), so it’s kind of hard to track it all, but the journalists and narrative drivers (psy-ops) are going to shape the story by picking and choosing the statements that create a cohesive story to rally behind and create morale and a casus for war or other action.
I sort of rambled a bit, but yea, I learned a cool word and thought I’d share.
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