• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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    12 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.