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Replacing evaluative concepts with sterilized descriptive ones is Newspeak 101.
by krona 4y ago
Replacing evaluative concepts with sterilized descriptive ones is Newspeak 101.
- watwut 4y agoNot so much sterilized as replacing things that sound odd and archaic. No one, literally no one is using "old hag" as insult. It is not a thing, it sounds funny rather then insult.
- krona 4y ago> No one, literally no one is using "old hag" as insult. I'm guessing you've never met an English person then. Your grammar suggests this to be the case.