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Let's just not create any new words / neologisms for "social justice" purposes. To be clear, no newspeak. Let's remain using the OED from circa 2006.

feoren 4y ago
Yes, language should never change. All used languages have been continually changing for their entire hundreds- or thousands-of-years' lifespan, but they should STOP changing, right around the year I was in college. Music, too! What's with all this new awful music! In the entire history of all humanity, music was best right around when I was in college! I used to be with it, and I can still be with it, as long as they just stop trying to change everything! Everything has gone downhill since the exact specific year that exactly specifically I was in college! Change has been a constant for two hundred thousand years of human history, but I DEMAND it stop as of 2006!!
- TurkishPoptart 4y ago
  TFA is about "equity language". Let's stay on topic.
  - feoren 4y ago
    The topic is your comment, and my reply is quite on topic. > Let's remain using the OED from circa 2006 You literally said the English language, which has been evolving for over a thousand years, should stop changing as of 2006. That's what you said. You don't like these new words because you don't want the world to change from how it was in your own personal golden years. It's fine, it happens to everyone; I'm just pointing out that that's the person you've become now. You're happy with all the "social justice movements" that happened from 100,000 BCE up to 2006 because those were either history, or your generation's causes. Now you're unhappy with "social justice" (your scare quotes) because it's all those liberal youths who are doing it. Since that covers the large majority of all backlash against "wokeism", I'd say it's quite on topic.
    - TurkishPoptart 4y ago
      You didn't read the article.

feoren 4y ago

Yes, language should never change. All used languages have been continually changing for their entire hundreds- or thousands-of-years' lifespan, but they should STOP changing, right around the year I was in college. Music, too! What's with all this new awful music! In the entire history of all humanity, music was best right around when I was in college! I used to be with it, and I can still be with it, as long as they just stop trying to change everything! Everything has gone downhill since the exact specific year that exactly specifically I was in college! Change has been a constant for two hundred thousand years of human history, but I DEMAND it stop as of 2006!!

TurkishPoptart 4y ago
TFA is about "equity language". Let's stay on topic.
- feoren 4y ago
  The topic is your comment, and my reply is quite on topic. > Let's remain using the OED from circa 2006 You literally said the English language, which has been evolving for over a thousand years, should stop changing as of 2006. That's what you said. You don't like these new words because you don't want the world to change from how it was in your own personal golden years. It's fine, it happens to everyone; I'm just pointing out that that's the person you've become now. You're happy with all the "social justice movements" that happened from 100,000 BCE up to 2006 because those were either history, or your generation's causes. Now you're unhappy with "social justice" (your scare quotes) because it's all those liberal youths who are doing it. Since that covers the large majority of all backlash against "wokeism", I'd say it's quite on topic.
  - TurkishPoptart 4y ago
    You didn't read the article.