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Offline AlligatorDicax

Re: Fundamental language shift - reflects reality
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2020, 10:00:22 PM »
Quote from: Geremia on April 24, 2020, 04:45:10 PM

They teach you not to hurt feelings and to use effeminate, passive speech [....]

So have you somehow not heard, in the last 3 decades, official U.S. government statements that rely upon the guilt-dismissing wording--as issued by the guilty parties--that for decades I've called the weaseling passive?  The classic wording is probably "Mistakes were made".
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Offline poche

Re: Fundamental language shift - reflects reality
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2020, 11:58:04 PM »
Speaking of language shifts, I can remember when the phrase "gαy marriage" meant something very different than what it means today. 
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Offline BTNYC

Re: Fundamental language shift - reflects reality
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2020, 11:37:24 AM »
Quote from: poche on April 25, 2020, 11:58:04 PM
Speaking of language shifts, I can remember when the phrase "gαy marriage" meant something very different than what it means today.

I can remember when the phrase "tub of lard" was understood to be a figurative and hyperbolic description of a fat person.

However, your innumerable accounts of "butter-bathed" culinary debauches forces us to reconsider that former understanding.
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Offline poche

Re: Fundamental language shift - reflects reality
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2020, 10:50:15 PM »
Quote from: BTNYC on April 26, 2020, 11:37:24 AM
I can remember when the phrase "tub of lard" was understood to be a figurative and hyperbolic description of a fat person.

However, your innumerable accounts of "butter-bathed" culinary debauches forces us to reconsider that former understanding.
I don't use lard. 
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Offline BTNYC

Re: Fundamental language shift - reflects reality
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2020, 09:06:06 AM »
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