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Considering any of that "worse" is definitely your perspective. It's simple back-in-my-day-ism to apply a value judgment to language use.
by oldmanjay 11y ago
Considering any of that "worse" is definitely your perspective. It's simple back-in-my-day-ism to apply a value judgment to language use.
- anon4 11y agoI used to be with "it". Then they redefined what "it" was and it wasn't what I was with. Now I can't be with what I used to be, because it's "it", but "it" is now different. In other words, embrace, extend, extinguish.
- UmDieWelt 11y agoThe point is that the words don't really have a useful meaning anymore. It is especially important in technical topics to have terms with some specific meaning.
- Retra 11y agoIt's important to be able to construct specific meanings. You don't need terms to do that, and you run a major communication risk by relying on terms that you aren't willing to define. And if you define them first, then you can use them however you like.
- kuschku 11y agoAnd that is why, a century ago, German was used frequently in science: A language where every word is a literal description of its meaning.
- dwc 11y agoIt's less about prescriptive vs. descriptive linguistics and more about people trying to make what they're doing sound more awesome than it is. The dilution of terms is an unfortunate side effect.