Gradine
🏳️⚧️ (she/her) 🇵🇸
No matter how much some would love for it be otherwise the case, language is deeply, deeply personal. It is rooted in history, culture, family, and individual experience. Any attempt to pursue what any specific word can, should, or does mean is inherently going to be significantly more fruitless than the ideas behind those words.
"We need a common vocabulary in order to-" no, you don't. You want a common vocabulary. What you need is understanding, as in what the other person means when they say the word they say, and you don't need them to say the words you want them to say in order to do that.
"We need a common vocabulary in order to-" no, you don't. You want a common vocabulary. What you need is understanding, as in what the other person means when they say the word they say, and you don't need them to say the words you want them to say in order to do that.
