How our language is being overwritten

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[–]Mnemonic 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Certain terms that are very useful get "overwritten" by other terms that are homonyms, but are more emotionally salient.

It think it's more a case of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs . It's the language evolving through culture.

  • The shades of grey/double entendre (or as I like to call it: The Freudian Cigar) it's a case of ignoring the giggles or the urge to say 'No it's not ...' or 'I mean the ... meaning not the ... ' because usually it's pretty clear you don't. Like the episode comically put out: Everything can be related to sex if you just think long and hard about it.

  • The trump thing is probably the reason the Drumph (was it?) family changed their name to Trump.

People are afraid to say the thing that comes to mind, lest it be misconstrued as something else because of all the overlaid double-meanings that so many words have come to have because of things being popularized in the media.

That would be people who are afraid to say homo, because apparently they can only see heaps of dicks and man-sex when using it while it's a commonly used Latin word meaning equal.

But on a more serious note, this overwriting of language because of media memes out of fear for social standing is a symptom of a broken society that watches too much crap rather than it being the cause or some sort of media masterplan. People who work 9-5 (or longer) and spend their free time passively watching 'crap' while their brains think they are somehow socially interacting with these voices/images on the screen. Apart from that dystopian imagery, it's (like in you OK video) a natural think for language to change according to culture changes, too bad media has become culture.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good points.

too bad media has become culture.

Media has always been culture. The problem is that the people no longer make the media, the corporations do. That's why we need to make our own culture. That's why I do podcasts, write articles, and why I built saidit

[–]Mnemonic 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Media has always been culture.

I agree, but it used to be a part of culture, made through/by culture and not dictating it.

That's why we need to make our own culture. That's why I do podcasts, write articles, and why I built saidit

I see what you mean and really do appreciate it all. I only think that culture is something much more local, but these things (and internet 'culture') are a good replacement of mainstream media and dull entertainment.