points by elliekelly 4 years ago

Is there a word for these sorts of “why don’t they just...” type of suggestions?

JackFr 4 years ago

It would be great if there where a way to ask “why don’t they just...”, with an emphasis on the “why” so rather than coming off as an uniformed blowhard one could inform themselves. I suppose a more circumspect way to ask might be “is there a reason they don’t ...?”

  • regularfry 4 years ago

    Leaving out the word "just" does just fine.

dredmorbius 4 years ago

"Oversimplification" and "trivialisation" come to mind.

burnished 4 years ago

yeah, just guarantee that everyone rocks up to a conversation already enlightened. problem solved, no more questions like that.