Can anybody explain to me why the word "propinquity" is not used more in daily conversation? Say, in an informal, joking-around kind of way? Or an intimate conversation between new lovers? Or in a terse aside among soldiers involved in a firefight with insurgents two klicks from Fallujah city center?
I feel it's most unfair that "propinquity" has been banished to occasional usage in little-read historical theses and confined to verbal use only among particle physicists and lawyers in remote villages in India.
Anyone up for a nice old-fashioned sitdown "work-to-rule" strike to advance the cause of more usage of the word "propinquity"?
Easy now, no shoving or pushing allowed on the premises.
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