I still cringe when people use "decimate" to mean "destroy."
I still cringe when people use "decimate" to mean "destroy."
To me this implies a casual and unintended happenstance. On the other hand, there's been a concerted effort over the past 25-30 years to purposely usurp/subvert/change meanings of some words to bend to the will of leftists. For instance take the word "fascist" or "fascism". Its been around for a while and generally meant a nationalistic political amalgamation of .gov and business with possible military undertones. Generally it was socialistic In nature (not defined as such but applied in common parlance) - the poster child being Italy under Mussolini. Fast forward to today... The word is now almost always applied - or defined - with "right wing" qualifiers. So its usage has been subverted. In the late 1990s there was actual public acknowledgment that these changes were being purposefully made.
So do any of you faggots have an actual hard copy of a dictionary? I procured a large Merriam Webster edition in the late 1980s for business use, then received my grandmother's circa 1950 Thorndike and Barnhardt volume a couple years later. I rarely do it any more, but will occasionally look up a word in both of them and compare the definition to one obtained online. Sometimes interesting shifts in meaning are discerned.
Words are important.
To me this implies a casual and unintended happenstance. On the other hand, there's been a concerted effort over the past 25-30 years to purposely usurp/subvert/change meanings of some words to bend to the will of leftists. For instance take the word "fascist" or "fascism". Its been around for a while and generally meant a nationalistic political amalgamation of .gov and business with possible military undertones. Generally it was socialistic In nature (not defined as such but applied in common parlance) - the poster child being Italy under Mussolini. Fast forward to today... The word is now almost always applied - or defined - with "right wing" qualifiers. So its usage has been subverted. In the late 1990s there was actual public acknowledgment that these changes were being purposefully made.
So do any of you faggots have an actual hard copy of a dictionary? I procured a large Merriam Webster edition in the late 1980s for business use, then received my grandmother's circa 1950 Thorndike and Barnhardt volume a couple years later. I rarely do it any more, but will occasionally look up a word in both of them and compare the definition to one obtained online. Sometimes interesting shifts in meaning are discerned.
Words are important.
Brings to mind wrods like "nigger" and "faggot".
Brings to mind wrods like "nigger" and "faggot".
How about gay? It used to mean happy.
How about gay? It used to mean happy.
Retarded used to mean retarded (slowed growth). I can't even find this definition anymore; they're all just about how it refers to retards and how insensitive it is.
Retarded used to mean retarded (slowed growth). I can't even find this definition anymore; they're all just about how it refers to retards and how insensitive it is.
Queer used to be a valid and powerful insult. Now, faggots wear it like a badge of honor, and we can get fired/canceled for calling someone a queer.
Queer used to be a valid and powerful insult. Now, faggots wear it like a badge of honor, and we can get fired/canceled for calling someone a queer.
before to regulate, to place in working order, now to add restrictions.
before to regulate, to place in working order, now to add restrictions.