> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works. In fact I think it actually does. In the l

> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works. In fact I think it actually does. In the last century this kind of thing has happened many times. One phenomenon is the way we refer to people who have intellectual disabilities. Sometimes it's called the Euphemism treadmill - as clinical names are created to describe a problem, they get used as a pejorative and the clinical name is now associated with the pejorative use. New clinical names are created without this association and on it goes - idiot, moron, retarded, slow, special needs, etc. Also, minorities have sought to redefine how they're described. Negro, black, African American. Oriental, Asian. Natural languages reflect their usage. So it's normal for popular usage of language to change how we speak. Some of those changes are incidental and some are deliberate - the result of a social campaign.