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I wonder if democracy is some kind of corporate speech homonym of some totally different concept I'm familiar with. Perhaps it's even an interesting linguistic

I wonder if democracy is some kind of corporate speech homonym of some totally different concept I'm familiar with. Perhaps it's even an interesting linguistic case where a word is a homonym of its antonym? Edit: also apparently known as contronym.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> wonder if democracy is some kind of corporate speech It generally means broadening access to something. Finance loves democratising access to stupid things, for example. > word is a homonym of its antonym? Inflammable in common use.
xpe 1y ago
"democratize" has been often abused: https://intage.us/articles/words/democratize/ https://intage.us/articles/words/democratize/