Why, I wonder, do people assume that words lose their individual meanings when combined, so that something like “squared differences” registers as “[unknown vocabulary item]” rather than “differences that have been squared”?
Because quite often sophisticated people will punish you socially if you don’t take special care to pay homage to whatever extra meaning the combined phrase has taken on. Caution in such cases is a practical social move.
Because quite often sophisticated people will punish you socially if you don’t take special care to pay homage to whatever extra meaning the combined phrase has taken on. Caution in such cases is a practical social move.
Good observation; I had been subliminally aware of it but nobody had ever pointed it out to me explicitly.