re: LOL Bama Sorostitute racist tirade- why you shouldn't drink and Social media

It is pretty sad that a word can have so much power over people. I mean it’s a word. That word has tyrannical power that no word should have. Hopefully when the baby boomers die off and Gen X and Y are geriatric, that damn word will have lost its immense power. I refuse to allow a word to own me.

Dude. Words change their meaning or get new usages ALL the time. Langauage constantly evolves. Webster adds new words and tweaks stuff every year yo. You can’t be rigid with it. You can’t arbitrarily decide at some point in history that all words mean one thing at one time and it will never change. A word can become offensive and it is just not ok to use anymore. I invent words from time to time. Slang and whatnot. My favorite word is maybily. It is a cross between probably and maybe. My friends know the word. They use it too.

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Words change their meaning or get new usages ALL the time.

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Yes and no

While I do agree the youth of each generation will tend to create slang to appear different than their elders is clearly established. I also agree that local dialect is common over time. Living with a guy from Minnesota I was well aware they had their own words unique to their region.

Some words however, are sort of set in stone as time marches on. The ancient Jews may have called God by the name Yahweh the more common use now of God has remained unchanged for how many centuries? In 18th century England in a Dickens novel using the term n I g g a r d l y in a book to describe a miser or parsimonious person in context and language understood by those with the command of English language is fine. The problem is when somebody a century or two later deletes the word from his actual writings and now you have changed context and meaning of what Dickens actually wrote. Imagine us rewriting Chaucer or Shakespeare to suit our modern needs and destroying the original work in the process?

Perhaps you are ahead of me and see where this is leading, if not, imagine you change a few words here and there to suit your needs and you have a few centuries to do it? On a more simplistic thing like the recipe for roman concrete, Damascus steel, or Egyptian masonry we can clearly see the effect. Take it one step further and a Greek bible of 2,000 years ago can look or read nothing like the Bible in your hands today.

The Butterfly Effect is a clear warning of unintended consequences on changes made but justified as small and meaningless. As a long term fan of the writings of Ray Bradbury I am even more a fan that Bradbury fought any effort by publishers to modify even a single . in his works. It is why I am a big fan of first editions printed on paper that can not be changed as opposed to electronic media that can be changed without notification or knowledge of the end reader.

Censorship is a double edged sword and just as dangerous.

She got expelled

The most Ironic part of the set of videos was that she thought that because she was from NJ, that somehow made it ok to say it.

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I've always thought he was way overrated, honestly. Strikes a chord with legitimate socioeconomic issues on some songs, but the music is pretty humdrum.

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Also, he seems to overact when sining. Looks like he is straining taking a crap. The lead guy from Journey did the same thing. Maybe both just needed more fibre in their diet.

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But, hey, that's why they make chocolate and vanilla.

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You forgot strawberry!

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It means miserly or cheap yet somehow in PC America this is now a bad word and further proof we are losing our grasp on language as a generation ago the American people had a language base of say 50,000 words and the past 5 to 10 years that has shrunk to about 20,000 and decreases daily as the popularity of emoji's swell.

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This isn't proof of Americans losing their grasp on the English language.

This is a universal phenomena common of all languages.

Languages simplify over time. It's actually exactly the opposite of losing your grip on the language. It's gaining a better understanding of the language and being able to convey your meaning with fewer and fewer words. IMO

Am I the only person who thinks it's stupid she got expelled? I mean good riddance, but I don't think a public school should be able to expel someone for words.

If they should be able to expel her, then we should just go ahead and make the n word illegal so there's no gray area.

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She was probably gettin it from an athlete, thought she was in a relationship, when it was just a booty call.

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Doesn't matter. No excuse for a rascist rant. That shite has to die.

Maybe if the athlete had given her tulips...