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We can spend ~decades rooting out every potential English synonym that could potentially offend someone, or we could just start over with a 'clean', 'pure' lang
by lwhalen 6y ago
We can spend ~decades rooting out every potential English synonym that could potentially offend someone, or we could just start over with a 'clean', 'pure' language with none of that pesky baggage.
In my opinion, this entire exercise leads to the wholesale rejection of the English language by the self-appointed 'elite'. Get ahead of the curve now, learn to speak Lojban today. It even has 'ban' right in the title!
- trothamel 6y agoSounds doubleplusgood to me.
- drak0n1c 6y agoThe cases motivated by ignorance of etymology and the conflation of homonyms are most frustrating. Such as the already gender-neutral version of the word “man”, which existed back when the sexes were referred to as weremen and women.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoIf we avoid anything that offends anyone, we’ll most likely not be speaking the truth. Truth always offends someone.