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We had perfectly good words for it. If we added new words someone would come along and claim them too. This is what happens when you move from a society which
by times_trw 3y ago
We had perfectly good words for it.
If we added new words someone would come along and claim them too.
This is what happens when you move from a society which values dignity to one that values suffering.
- the_third_wave 3y agoIt is also what you get when language evolution makes was for language revolution - or revolutionary language - where language modification is used as a tool to achieve a means to achieve an ideological goal. When 'language is violence' but actual violence is 'mostly peaceful' or 'context-dependent' language loses its purpose.
- times_trw 3y agoOn the contrary it servers it's purpose perfectly and lets you know exactly what the speaker means when they use those words.