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Shu was reading a limerick on OEDILF and saw one that used "simplistic" as a synonym of "simple." He says that's not the case.

Can they be used interchangeably?
 
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Not really. "Simplistic" means "unrealistically simple".

The simplistic solution to war is for everyone to love one another.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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Can they be used interchangeably?

Not how I speak ...
 
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Great example, arnie. So, Shu is right. They are quite different words.

Here was the limerick (not mine). Shu thinks the use of "simplistic" here is wrong:

The abacus is a device
That does math in ways strictly precise.
Its works are holistic
With a form as simplistic
As a toy that is pure Fisher-Price.

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It's not holistic either. But heck, precision is for abaci, not for limericks.

Or is it abacusses?
 
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