• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Well, defining words narrowly is pretty much the definition of gatekeeping. I hope you’re not gatekeeping what gatekeeping means?

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      1 year ago

      You aren’t a real gatekeeper if you haven’t gatekept gatekeeping before

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        1 year ago

        But who decides what the proper definition is? Your proper definition is for me a narrow if it doesn’t take into account the common usage. The definition of meme is widening. Cope with it.

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          I’m perfectly happy to give orthographic dominion to Webster. They can be our Academie Francaise. They can control the definition drift. And the pedants can use their educational privilege to suppress the poors. As it should be.

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            As it has always been. As God himself intended it as we see in the story of the tower of babel