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That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase
by ihsw2 8y ago
That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever you want."
- danmg 8y agoWhen it's a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning, yes you can.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning All words and phrases are made up. None of them have an “inherent concrete meaning”. Commonly-accepted deifnitions today may have been entirely foreign a few decades ago.
- kazinator 8y agoWords and phrases can have a de facto inherent meaning when they are in a language shared by the speaker and listener (including a shared knowledge domain). When in spite of this shared language/domain situation, a phrase is gobbledygook, it is fair to say it has "no inherent concrete meaning".
- danmg 8y agoExactly. It's not like the author is saying, "The cat is on the red table."
- danmg 8y agoYes, so the author is free to talk about 'toxic culture' as inflexible management and that makes sense to me.
- mercer 8y agoSo if you think all these things, why do you feel a need to convince us we're wrong? I mean, does your blarf just not embiggen the point yule's trying to make? I mean, depending on what you might think I instoll with a breem like 'your blarf'. I do agree that it all glarps like slofting ar a six year old.
- danmg 8y agook.
- privacypoller 8y agoand then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.
- NCWV 8y agoWe bow to your superior intellect!