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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:34:58 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   • MarkusL
   • Steven Roose

   @stevenroose @markusl Oh right, that's a word too. In Swedish I would say an "egoist" is one who ruthlessly puts themself first to the detriment of everyone else, and an "egocentriker" is mostly someone who is lacking in empathy and talks about themself all the time.

   In English it seems that "egotist" has an overlap with the latter, but "egoist" doesn't.

   • Steven Roose (stevenroose@x0f.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:34:59 UTC Steven Roose

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     • MarkusL

     @clacke @markusl Yeah Dutch only has one too. Though we use egoist and egocentrist as different things. Or at least I do. I understand egoism a being more about actions one takes and egocentrist more about thoughts/views one holds.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:35:00 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     • MarkusL
     @markusl I don't care about the comment or commenter very much, but it got me curious about how people see these two words. My native Swedish only has one.