Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 4/12/24 12:34, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 4/9/24 11:19, Physfitfreak wrote:

It is like saying, "You are just experiencing the effect of the ability of a sharp object to penetrate into a 70% water body-material. That's all! What else do you think is happening?", when a burglar is stabbing you inside your bedroom.

  There must be an English word for such act. Either a verb, or an adjective "being something". In Persian we have a short phrase for it and a longer saying, not a succinct word (as far as i know - haven't been in touch with those who're very good in Persian). But if there's a word in English for the verb or adjective describing it, I cannot find it in the dictionaries and thesauruses.
 If there's actually not an English word for it, then somebody needs to create it cause that kind of act is getting pretty common in this land of the brave, especially in news media and politics talk. It's even seeping into completely unrelated media, like this COLA of yours.
 "facetious", for instance, comes just a bit close, but still is far from an adjective for exactly that act. It really only describes a tiny aspect of it.
 In psychology (I just referred to my outline of the course I made decades back) the act is, in a limited way, recognized but doesn't have a single word name. It uses two words which without the context is difficult to understand the meaning (Confirmation Bias). It points only to cases which the actor is also sincere, not when he deliberately does it for gross omission of other aspects of the act about which he's negatively sensitive. So, at least up to a few decades back, I don't think English language had a single word for it. But by now, there could well be one in use.
 Any of you Bozos know that word? If not, you're entitled to drop your pants and finger yourselves while saying, "Mama, gimme som'dat milk".
  

An English phrase for it would be "obfuscating the culprit." Is there a single direct word for it?