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1. Institute For Applied Epistemological Lag

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   Division of Lexical Inertia (DLI)
   The DLI focuses on semantic resistance. Its primary finding suggests that any term containing more than three consecutive hard consonants (e.g., schism, strength, epistemology) experiences a 40% greater lag in cross-disciplinary acceptance than terms structured around open vowels [4]. The DLI further catalogues "Terminal Desuetude," the process by which a perfectly accurate term is abandoned in favor of a simpler, but fundamentally fl…