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How did we let certain words take the place of other words?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:17 pm
For example, gender.
Gender had only been applicable to languages when I was growing up and learning Spanish/Latin in high school. When pertaining to a physical body, it was a sex. Using the words interchangeably broadens the original definition. Why did they stop saying sex? Was intercourse too long of a word?
Another, way before my time. Race.
Ethnicity was defined well in advance before writers started using them interchangeably, again broadening its original definition.
The English language is being bastardized.
Gender had only been applicable to languages when I was growing up and learning Spanish/Latin in high school. When pertaining to a physical body, it was a sex. Using the words interchangeably broadens the original definition. Why did they stop saying sex? Was intercourse too long of a word?
Another, way before my time. Race.
Ethnicity was defined well in advance before writers started using them interchangeably, again broadening its original definition.
The English language is being bastardized.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 8:26 pm
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:19 pm to gmac8604
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:20 pm to gmac8604
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basterdized
bastardized...
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:22 pm to gmac8604
Control the language, control the narrative...
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:23 pm to gmac8604
Jay from Jay and Silent Bob tried to take a phrase back once.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:32 pm to gmac8604
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How did we let certain words take the place of other words?
When did “Ding dong ditch”supplant the old two word saying?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:34 pm to Kenna City Solja
Language evolves. It’s why we don’t still speak Old English.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:41 pm to Celery
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Language evolves.
Not entirely accurate, see Latin.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:08 pm to gmac8604
Cooked/cooking
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:37 pm to gmac8604
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:43 pm to gmac8604
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Not entirely accurate, see Latin
I guess French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian didn’t evolve from Latin
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:57 pm to Celery
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I guess French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian didn’t evolve from Latin
You guessed wrong, because they were created from the Latin language. Yet, its a dead language now. Partial proof of devolution of a language thats been fragmented.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:00 pm to gmac8604
Killed is now unalived. What kind of ignorant crap is that?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:20 am to gmac8604
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You guessed wrong, because they were created from the Latin language. Yet, its a dead language now. Partial proof of devolution of a language thats been fragmented.
You are idiotically wrong.
None of those languages were "created." People did not sit down at a meeting a chart out these languages with a vocabulary based in Latin. They all evolved from the base Latin in separate regions. It's why Italian, and several other Italian regional languages are so much closer to Latin than, say, Romanian.
Why aren't we still speaking Proto-Indo-European? People just keep having these meetings to make new languages out of thin air. So annoying.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 4:25 am to gmac8604
Nothing to see here, just 2% of the population unaliving common sense.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 4:43 am to yakster
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Killed is now unalived. What kind of ignorant crap is that?
I think someone thought that was a clever/joking way to say kill in a more politically correct sounding way.
After that it caught on because it's kind of funny.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 5:19 am to LSUtoBOOT
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Nothing to see here, just 2% of the population unaliving common sense.
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