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Sep 24, 2011, 07:14 AM
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines resistentialism as a ''mock philosophy which maintains that inanimate objects are hostile to humans'' and calls it a ''humorous blend'' of the Latin res , thing(s), and French résister , to resist, with existentialism . The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition (2002), perhaps in resistential defiance of its title, expands that definition to ''a mock philosophy maintaining that inanimate objects are hostile to humans or seek to thwart human endeavours.''
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/ma...NLANGUAGE.html
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