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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7511174" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes, I know, but that wasn't exactly where I was going with that.Don't get me wrong.&nbsp; I love that English is a beautiful, vibrant, living language, ever fertile, fecund and adapting words from other languages.&nbsp; I love that it has more words and more shades of meaning than any other language in the world, and that it is ever introducing words for ideas it had not previously known.&nbsp; That a dictionary would be updated doesn't bother me.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, and I think I've hinted at this plenty, I think there that a certain philosophical faction is deliberately abusing lovely English for their own ends, robbing words of their meaning and twisting them until they mean their opposites, or worse, until they mean nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp; If everything is politics, then the word is meaningless, because it doesn't distinguish anything and its use its applicable to everything.&nbsp; Once there was a line of meaning drawn around the thing that was politics, and things lay outside of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Therefore, it was a useful label which people could use to communicate ideas.&nbsp; Now it is just a tawdry weapon people use to bash on the edifice of logic and reason.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the Newspeak, and it happens everywhere that vocabulary is diminished and words are made to stand for both something and their opposite, allowing for doublethink.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7511174, member: 4937"] Yes, I know, but that wasn't exactly where I was going with that. Don't get me wrong. I love that English is a beautiful, vibrant, living language, ever fertile, fecund and adapting words from other languages. I love that it has more words and more shades of meaning than any other language in the world, and that it is ever introducing words for ideas it had not previously known. That a dictionary would be updated doesn't bother me. But, and I think I've hinted at this plenty, I think there that a certain philosophical faction is deliberately abusing lovely English for their own ends, robbing words of their meaning and twisting them until they mean their opposites, or worse, until they mean nothing. If everything is politics, then the word is meaningless, because it doesn't distinguish anything and its use its applicable to everything. Once there was a line of meaning drawn around the thing that was politics, and things lay outside of it. Therefore, it was a useful label which people could use to communicate ideas. Now it is just a tawdry weapon people use to bash on the edifice of logic and reason. This is the Newspeak, and it happens everywhere that vocabulary is diminished and words are made to stand for both something and their opposite, allowing for doublethink. [/QUOTE]

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