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What other words are being or have been redefined in the past two years?

by LeafItAlone 4y ago

DuskStar 4y ago
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- ChadNauseam 4y ago
  can you elaborate on how “vaccine” has been redefined in the past few years?
  - niknoble 4y ago
    Apparently the CDC literally changed its definition. From the Miami Herald (but you can check against other sources): > Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.” Webster dictionary broadened its definition too. From USA Today: > Merriam-Webster revised its "vaccine" definition to replace "immunity" with "immune response."
    - epakai 4y ago
      What were non-immunizing vaccines called before? I've seen "intramuscular virus injection", but I don't think that was ever a layman's term. Have we not always had the concept of sterilising immunity, and therefore non-sterilising immunity? To me this is just nuance being exposed, and word definitions being updated to include that nuance.
      - the_third_wave 4y ago
        They were called "non-immunising vaccines". viz. this article from 2001: Development of a non-immunising, paraspecific vaccine from attenuated pox viruses: a new type of vaccine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/
  - mixmastamyk 4y ago
    Why is the grandparent flagged/dead for an arguably innocuous comment, that others are allowed to make? I've seen this a lot recently, wonder what is going on?
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      Probably the same as what is happening at Wikipedia, over-zealous users have taken it upon themselves to police certain topics and punish certain users for expressing their opinions which go against the desired narrative.
baisq 4y ago
Woman: a pretty big one!
tpoacher 4y ago
Scott Adams recently had a podcast on this topic: "All major topics have at least one word that is critical to our debate, that we don't use the same way." "Words That Don’t Have Meaning Anymore, So We Can Stop Debating Them": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIUUzDj3hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIUUzDj3hU (about 5 minutes in). The words were: - Woman - Find (i.e. discover vs make up) - Insurrection - Fascism - Autonomy - Phobic - Racist - Vaccine - Meeting - Baby - Evidence - Audit - Science - Healthy - Rights
- mansion7 4y ago
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ccrush 4y ago
Woman in Merriam Webster was changed recently.

What other words are being or have been redefined in the past two years?

DuskStar 4y ago

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ChadNauseam 4y ago
can you elaborate on how “vaccine” has been redefined in the past few years?
- niknoble 4y ago
  Apparently the CDC literally changed its definition. From the Miami Herald (but you can check against other sources): > Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.” Webster dictionary broadened its definition too. From USA Today: > Merriam-Webster revised its "vaccine" definition to replace "immunity" with "immune response."
  - epakai 4y ago
    What were non-immunizing vaccines called before? I've seen "intramuscular virus injection", but I don't think that was ever a layman's term. Have we not always had the concept of sterilising immunity, and therefore non-sterilising immunity? To me this is just nuance being exposed, and word definitions being updated to include that nuance.
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      They were called "non-immunising vaccines". viz. this article from 2001: Development of a non-immunising, paraspecific vaccine from attenuated pox viruses: a new type of vaccine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  Why is the grandparent flagged/dead for an arguably innocuous comment, that others are allowed to make? I've seen this a lot recently, wonder what is going on?
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    Probably the same as what is happening at Wikipedia, over-zealous users have taken it upon themselves to police certain topics and punish certain users for expressing their opinions which go against the desired narrative.

baisq 4y ago

Woman: a pretty big one!

tpoacher 4y ago

Scott Adams recently had a podcast on this topic: "All major topics have at least one word that is critical to our debate, that we don't use the same way." "Words That Don’t Have Meaning Anymore, So We Can Stop Debating Them": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIUUzDj3hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIUUzDj3hU (about 5 minutes in). The words were: - Woman - Find (i.e. discover vs make up) - Insurrection - Fascism - Autonomy - Phobic - Racist - Vaccine - Meeting - Baby - Evidence - Audit - Science - Healthy - Rights

mansion7 4y ago
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ccrush 4y ago

Woman in Merriam Webster was changed recently.