I forget the book, but it was about the rise of the alt right movement online and it used the word ‘milieu’ a LOT.

I’ve talked about this before but it really was super annoying. I listened to the audiobook for the book Seeing Like A State, and the book uses the word ‘metis’, which is a borrowed word from French to mean ‘specific knowledge gained by having done something for a long time, or generations’. It’s pronounced ‘Meh-tea’, the audiobook said ‘meat-us’ THE ENTIRE TIME. It was both annoying and funny, and every time he said it I couldn’t help but mutter ‘meat-us’ to myself.

Neal Stephenson. Loved both The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon but those f*ckers were DENSE

I plan to read Snow Crash sometime in the near future but I kind of need to mentally prepare