I will however somewhat police your use of the term "neoliberal," in this convo, though I do so on conceptual, not linguistic grounds. I could be a neoliberal, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, etc. & none of that would have any bearing on my knowledge of linguistics.
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The fact that you would bring this terminology up in an unrelated conversation tells me the term "neoliberal" is basically meaningless to you, outside of it being a descriptor for people who don't agree w/ you.
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Now, to be clear, perhaps some of this is a linguistic convo, given I am offering a descriptive analysis of how you use the term "neoliberal" (w/o real denotation). I am not, however, telling you you cannot use the term this way. Overall, I will say that it made 0 sense here.
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And that is, again, a conceptual judgment, not a linguistic one.
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I was wrong to denigrate your expertise (and really shouldn't have been invoking linguistics for an argument about popular usage). And, yes, whether you are a neo-liberal or not is immaterial to the issue on hand.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Just for the record: you should be invoking linguistics for arguments about popular usage.
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Replying to @magi_jay
I dunno -- as we argued out the debate I realized that my thinking on this rooted in morality and philosophy rather than linguistics. I think language belongs to everyone not just experts.
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Jeet, you are expressing the view of linguists. But actual behavioral/cognitive analysis does take training. I don't think you actually know what "linguistics" means. Also fairly unconvinced about "morality" and "philosophy" at this point, given just how nonsensical this point is
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Agree, the study of language and how it works takes analysis and I'm happy to defer to the hard-won knowledge of experts. But language is also something almost all humans use -- and as a writer I think my job is to attend that common usage.
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By challenging experts on the basis of the fact that they are “neoliberal” when you clearly have no idea what that means? Ok . God speed.
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Hey, I acknowledged I shouldn't have done that! Your politics are immaterial to your expertise.
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