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So I can test your assertion, whats an example of this forced change thats actually stuck?
Hans, you know there's a huge difference between the natural evolution of language and the sudden, gratuitious, and forced change made by some political voices working in a Marxian/"1984-ish" style.
"Pet parent" instead of pet owner
I don't see anything about it being a racial slur in the article. Are you sure you read the same article you linked to?
I'll bet not a single one of those complaining employees had ever worked in a field.
But I'll also bet 99% of all of us have an ancestor within the last 5 generations who did work in some kind of field.
When I was a teenager, I worked in someone else's field one day...kind of an experiment to see what "chopping cotton" was like. If I ever needed a reason to get a college degree, that one day chopping cotton provided all the reason I'd ever need. I did, however, do a lot of outdoor work for my grandfather on his property, so I was not a stranger to hard work under a hot sun.
I'm not embarrassed by the fact that my ancestors worked in fields, first those of slaveowners, then fields of their own. Certainly, the word "field" isn't going to "trigger" me.
This horse manure has long been absurd.
This is a result of making "black studies" a college major.
Do I? (Do you?)
Words replace other words all the time. Often as a matter of fashion. They acquire new usages. Old usages stop, &c, &c, &c.
Hans. We're talking in this thread about the use of the word "field." Look at the OP and then tell me that, assuming the story is true, this isn't odd.
But why “Dorset”?The article is outrage farming, and you've been picked out there in the field. Congratulations!
It's a very specific usage in a certain certain context in a very small area of overall human activity.
In the mean time, I've redefined a lot of mathematical symbols, so here is an arithmetic puzzle for you to solve:
- & V R V
V & V R W
V & W R 3
W & W R H
3 & W R 2
W & H R X
X & V R S
H & H R O
3 & X R V-
2 & 2 R VV
??But why “Dorset”?
When the usage (or abandonment of usage) becomes common, durable, and mostly not questioned. Like with the demise of "negro".
I dont know if theres better measure of oppression than people reporting feeling oppressed. Im reporting that I dont. Put that in the basket along with everyone elses testimony.
Govt official usage in docs is not oppression. Oppression is when govt forces your usage.
So? Is she entitled to immunity from criticism?..... while here we are putting other agencies of govt "under fire" for excising "field". None of the under fire stuff is oppression.
All this about big brother oppression seems a little hyperventilatory to me. That said, I think relegating "field" is double plus silly.
Yes, it is different. Example of this re media, please?Government usage in docs is different than government incentivizing private companies and MSM to push the same terminology, often under threats of bans or firings if the people don't comply.
Yes, it is different. Example of this re media, please?
Example of govt incentivizing media to conform to new word usages?Example of what exactly? MSM people using goofy words and phrases that some in the government use to please those who speak "woke"?
Define incentivizing, conform, new, and problematic.Example of govt incentivizing media to conform to new word usages?
I want a specific example of a problematic action.
Just give me an example of what you had in mind in your post.Define incentivizing, conform, new, and problematic.
I usually do that, only to discover afterwards that the person who wants specific examples isn't pleased with any examples I give because it didn't meet the unspoken definitions of the requester.Just give me an example of what you had in mind in your post.
Which people abandoned willingly, without any university telling students not to use it.When the usage (or abandonment of usage) becomes common, durable, and mostly not questioned. Like with the demise of "negro".
Yes I can appreciate how this top (academy) down language engineering can be really annoying. To me its just silly, while to you there might be more at stake in this specific case.Which people abandoned willingly, without any university telling students not to use it.
What annoys me, as a black person, is that government agencies--such as state universities and state governments--are deciding public dictates based on limited extreme information. This is an example like that of government agencies picking up "Latinx" despite the fact that Spanish language authorities and the vast majority of Spanish speakers have outright rejected it.
"“Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.”
I suspect that idea originates from a single university black studies professor. It makes the rest of us look unreasonable and unreasoning.
What annoys me, as a black person, is that government agencies--such as state universities and state governments--are deciding public dictates based on limited extreme information. This is an example like that of government agencies picking up "Latinx" despite the fact that Spanish language authorities and the vast majority of Spanish speakers have outright rejected it.
"“Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.”
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