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| 1 | Guess which one is controllable.Influence and propaganda aren't the same thing. Influence is inevitable in language because otherwise language itself wouldn't exist | /r/PussyPassDenied | 21/06/21 12:48 AM |
| 1 | Guess which one is controllable.No literally, if people agree a word means something, then it does. Higher powers imposing what should and shouldn't be common in language doesn't work (see French with la covid vs le covid) Linguistic propaganda doesn't work anymore. And if it did in the past, it doesn't matter now, because you can't force people to undo it, since that would be as effective as propaganda | /r/PussyPassDenied | 18/06/21 12:10 AM |
| 1 | Guess which one is controllable."Modern language manipulation" is just language evolution. A word meant something in ancient Greek, then time passed and now it means something else in English. That's how language works The meaning of a word is decided in two ways: what authorities say (prescriptvism), and what people mean when they use the word (descriptvism) English isn't officially regulated, unlike French, but it has dictionaries and style guides. From a prescriptvist point of view, "-phobia" can refer to aversion, as seen … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/21 10:24 PM |
| 1 | Guess which one is controllable.Oh nice | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/21 09:50 PM |
| 1 | Guess which one is controllable.¹ phobia noun /ˈfoʊbiə/ a strong unreasonable fear of something He has a phobia about flying. One of the symptoms of the disease is water phobia. ² -phobia (in nouns) a strong unreasonable fear or hatred of a particular thingclaustrophobiaxenophobia We're looking for the suffix here, not the noun | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/21 09:48 PM |
| 2 | Guess which one is controllable.Oh wait really? It was that easy? Or are you trolling me? | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/21 09:14 PM |
| 1 | Guess which one is controllable.Phobia: irrational fear or aversion | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/21 08:51 PM |
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