eldritchwug replied to your post “Here’s the real question - when people call me “Elenchus” in their...”
... … church we can't all be classicists
I know perfectly well I brought this on myself by choosing a weird name. I have a weird name irl too, so I’m used to it :)
femcombeferre replied to your post “Elenchtic pronouncements”
I mean, I read your whole url as something like 'apprentice elenchickus' which is VERY wrong, so I feel like the 'ch' as in church is the least of my worries
That sounds like how I read urls that aren’t immediately obvious to me too, so I’m certainly not going to judge! If it helps, it breaks down into aporetic elenchus, which are both terms from philosophy. Aporetic means something like “unsolvable” (or more literally, “no passage”) and elenchus means “refutation” and refers to the Socratic method of questioning.












