OmnivoreRalph@hear-me.social
May 16, 2026, 5:42 PMI prefer the word 'modal' to the word 'normal'. Normal is 90 degrees from a tangent or horizontal line. Modal is the peak of a distribution.
I have never been normal, but in some ways I am modal (+/- 2 standard deviations, or within 87% of the population).
My main objection is that abnormal tends to be pejorative, while non-modal is just descriptive.