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Acting as if context doesn’t exist is repeating weird motif of this genre of dignified dusty outrage. Using these words in a context where the context doesn’t
by arrrg 7y ago
Acting as if context doesn’t exist is repeating weird motif of this genre of dignified dusty outrage.
Using these words in a context where the context doesn’t make its meaning clear is a bad, sure, but other usage is quite unproblematic.
- coldtea 7y agoPlus, even the context-free use allows for interesting puns, non-committal ("diplomatic") responses, and so on. If all words had that problem, sure it would be bad. But some words needing extra context to disambiguate is not a real problem (nor a new phenomenon). In fact we even have it in parsers, where it helps to make syntax lighter and more pleasant (at the cost of complicating the parsing rule).