• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Language evolves and its extremely common to have entirely different colloquial and academic definitions

    The meaning of political concepts do not change - it doesn’t matter how desperately CNN wants to sell their “both-side-ism” bullcrap to you.

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      7 months ago

      I dont watch the news lmao but yes they do change umm thats how language works I’m not really sure what to tell u here do u think were still speaking Latin or what? With the internet especially language started to change faster

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        7 months ago

        but yes they do change

        No. They don’t - no matter how desperately you want them to. The basic idea behind socialism hasn’t changed. The basic idea behind democracy hasn’t changed.

        You just want them to have changed so that you don’t have to account for the fact that you bought the bullshit for the sake of convenience.

        I’m not really sure what to tell u here

        That’s because you have no argument.

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          7 months ago

          That is the most ignorant thing I have ever heard being said about language and how language works (and half my degree was in Linguistics).

          If you can’t admit language changes, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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            7 months ago

            For someone who purports to be so educated in language your reading comprehension sure is worthy of the circular filing cabinet.

            Do you, Mister-Wannabe-Jordan-Peterson, understand what the term…

            political concepts

            …mean?