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We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. Yo
by always_good 8y ago
We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. You probably do it, too.
The idea and exercise of this is so ubiquitous that I think you're blind to it, like when people suggest there is no American culture.
- dmos62 8y agoYou missed my point. I elaborated in this comment [0]. I'd call the malleability you're talking about cosmetics in comparison. The examples I gave are human-centricity and sexism embedded in the very way we refer to objects. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468142