Comment by anonymouskimmer
1 year ago
> there are few things quite as pathetic
I very much agree with your overall point. But it's literally the opposite of pathetic to elide one's own pathos. I'm actually a bit sad that such as useful word as "pathetic" was literally reversed in meaning to become a disparaging epithet.
All personality types have their own blindspots.
> But it's literally the opposite of pathetic to elide one's own pathos
...a rather important part of the overall point is precisely that the people in question are not elid[ing their] own pathos.
Saying it's not really anger is at least the attempt to not consider it. But yes, verbal elidation is probably more correct.