i think maybe we should keep "genocide" reserved for people, or at least wait on applying it to software till we think that software might be sentient. linguis

i think maybe we should keep "genocide" reserved for people, or at least wait on applying it to software till we think that software might be sentient. linguistic inflation sort of sucks [0]. [0] http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/is-linguistic-inflation-insanely-awesome http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/is-linguistic-inflati... ("linguistic inflation" is a term that i've been using in my own head for years without using it in conversation, so i'm glad to see others have the same complaint)