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I think words like these are also used now as a means of signaling...well.. something about your views or beliefs or group identity. Reminds me of the politic
by _xerces_ 2y ago
I think words like these are also used now as a means of signaling...well.. something about your views or beliefs or group identity.
Reminds me of the politically-correct nonsense in the 90s with *-challenged, like a short person is now vertically-challenged, a bald person is folliclly-challenged or adding *-technician to something like dish-cleansing-technician.
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- fiforpg 2y agoLooks like this kind of soft / euphemistic language dates back to even earlier than that. Here is a YT clip of George Carlin railing against it in his 1990 special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
- kadoban 2y agoIt dates back to one generation after language was invented. And bitching about it dates to one week later.