‘American’ and ‘you guys’ among words considered harmful by Stanford University

Dry_Personality7194 · 2022-12-22T05:33:08+00:00

I hope they make another list next year! We had a blast last night at the pub reading it. 9/10 comedy

hehimCA · 2022-12-22T06:28:04+00:00

Unreal. These people are so out of touch.

OldSamVimes · 2022-12-22T05:36:07+00:00

That list was so hilarious.

Not sure if that was their intention. LOL

DemolitionMatter · 2022-12-22T13:51:35+00:00

Fact: in the mid 20th century, women were the ones who invented saying “guys” gender neutrally like the way we used to say “folks”

Look it up

McFeely_Smackup · 2022-12-22T18:46:01+00:00

I'm just going to drop this here for some consideration:

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.

To give a single example. The word FREE still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as ‘This dog is free from lice’ or ‘This field is free from weeds’. It could not be used in its old sense of ‘politically free’ or ‘intellectually free’ since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless.

George Orwell "1984", Newspeak Appendix

kreiger-69 · 2022-12-22T10:11:03+00:00

Anyone got a copy please? It's not available to us in the old world

southernmusicboi · 2022-12-22T09:16:31+00:00

We live in everybody’s head rent-free.

Malento · 2022-12-22T05:39:25+00:00

The Goonies will be banned for recruiting the 4th reich.

Odd_Big_5560 · 2022-12-22T06:18:27+00:00

Men in the west= the Jews in Nazi Germany

KochiraJin · 2022-12-23T00:50:44+00:00

“American” was deemed to be “imprecise language,” and the EHLI said “U.S. citizen” is preferred. “This term (American) often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries),” Stanford EHLI said.

The US is absolutely the most important country in the Americas. Arguably in the world too. To say otherwise is just burying your head in the sand.

Forcetobereckonedwit · 2022-12-23T03:14:02+00:00

Good to see that our universities of higher learning are spending their time seeking out ways to combat climate change, cancer, and public health! Oh... wait... What?

Reasonable_Listen514 · 2022-12-23T03:36:32+00:00

The so called prestigious universities are becoming memes. They push nonsense now.

UnmutualOne · 2022-12-22T20:46:33+00:00

Can we get rid of “bruh” then?

mikesteane · 2022-12-22T07:40:17+00:00

Actually, I agree that US citizens should not use the term "American" as if it referred exclusively to them. But to me it's more a matter of using language accurately, which is part of being able to think clearly.

Present_Animator5025 · 2022-12-22T09:55:21+00:00

Language evolves. If it didn’t we would all still be speaking like Chaucer. David Foster Wallace is rolling in his grave right now. And I wonder what Chomsky thinks of this.

Njaulv · 2022-12-22T19:04:47+00:00

My favorite is "grandfather"

Educational_Bet_6606 · 2022-12-24T09:26:59+00:00

These people have too much time on their hands.

Title	‘American’ and ‘you guys’ among words considered harmful by Stanford University
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Date	December 22, 2022 4:50 AM UTC (3 years ago)
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