Re: technical terms overhaul
On Sun Jun 21 08:15:00 2020 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eike Lantzsch wrote:
>
>> If we change the language it might change the mind little by little -
>> or not at all. Depends on which influences on a person or group of
>> persons is stronger. ("For mere oppression may make a wise one act
>> crazy, ..."[2])
>
> You have obviously no idea of how language works - you are trying
> dictatorship.
> Language serves communication needs.
Most of the time. However, it can also be used for manipulation.
> Language follows our society.
Unless it's used to warp our society. It's time a lot of us
gave Orwell's _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ another read. Pay particular
attention to the appendix on Newspeak, wherein he describes how
language can be used to alter - and limit - thought itself.
> So please - go change the real problems in society that is really
> not the language.
Agreed. And resist the revisionist lexicographers.
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