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submitted 2 days ago by sirico@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quintessential does not mean "really essential", and does not make sense in this context.

You can't really be quintessential "for" something; only quintessential of something.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

Ethymologically you are right, I wasn't really aware of the alchemical background of five rounds of destillation when I wrote my comment.

Nonetheless, "quintessential for" is not unheard (or rather unread?) of:

It will take another generation or two until this usage becomes normalized, so thank you for pointing me to a better style.