👉 Okay, letās tackle this wonderfully prickly beast of a word! Beholdā¦
teach5
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Basically (and admittedly with a very loose interpretive wiggle here), the ludicrous-sounding "teach5" describes a state of utterly, profoundly, and somewhat ironically, being taught into obsolescence. Itās that pointy moment when you've spent so long diligently absorbing information, meticulously following instructions, rigidly adhering to pre-set methodologies... only for it all to then be gleefully dismantled and tossed aside by the new overlords. Think of a very earnest young cartographer who spends their entire career painstakingly charting the exact dimensions of every existing coastline, only for the next generation to come along and declare, with a dismissive wave of the hand, that "seashore lines are subjective anyway! Here's what we think it looks like now. You wereā¦ off. (and frankly, a little beige.)". There isnāt an actual codified definition anywhere, really. It is entirely my own, somewhat unnecessarily elaborate coinage. It leans heavily on the ridiculous potential for institutional failure and the humiliation of having one's life's work deemed... quaint. --- Here's that unsettling (and hopefully humorous) example sentence: The veteran systems analyst, after a year spent painstakingly documenting every glitch in the mainframeāthe documented, traceable, utterly predictable glitchesāfelt
