Autocompletes to asperger-rationalist for me, and I see Valentine reports the same. But maybe this frees up enough syllable-budget to spend one on bypassing that. How about: endevrat, someone who endeavours to be rational.
(This one is much better on the linguistic properties, but note that there’s a subtle meaning shift: it’s no longer inclusive of people who aspire but do not endeavour, ie people who identify-with rationality but can’t quite bring themselves to read or practice. This seems important but I don’t know whether it’s better or worse.)
Hm, the “AR scene” already refers to something, but maybe we could fight out our edge in the culture.
There’s also the good ol’ Asp Rat abbreviation.
Autocompletes to asperger-rationalist for me, and I see Valentine reports the same. But maybe this frees up enough syllable-budget to spend one on bypassing that. How about: endevrat, someone who endeavours to be rational.
(This one is much better on the linguistic properties, but note that there’s a subtle meaning shift: it’s no longer inclusive of people who aspire but do not endeavour, ie people who identify-with rationality but can’t quite bring themselves to read or practice. This seems important but I don’t know whether it’s better or worse.)
(this was the intended joke)
OOoooooohhhhhhhhhh.
Alas, my brain autocompletes “Asp Rat” to “Asperger’s-like rationalist”.
That one’s also a little hard to pronounce, so I think we’d have to collapse it to “assrat”.
Could go “aspirat”. (Pronounced /ˈæs.pɪ̯.ɹæt/, not /ˈæsˈpaɪ̯.ɹɪʔ/.)
I find “AR” more difficult to actually say out loud than “EA”.
Just think like a pirate.