• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    I understand, it’s all a part of what we have to deal with in the battle of linguistics to make our ideas clear.

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      It’s nothing new for a society to change their language over time to make it more palettable to a larger group of people. For example, it is no longer considered acceptable to use the r-slur or the f-slur (not “fuck”, but the other one), whereas 10-20 years ago, it was considered normal to use those words.