Not really. I wish everyone would grow up (you're all like schoolchildren: "Ooh, he said the word 'bum'!").
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Hence the fact that if, say, I were to stand in front of a woman and shout "I HAVE A PENIS" I would be sexually harassing her, even though my statement would not only be a true statement but one that conveys no new information beyond what most people already assumed to be true
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But, of course, the extremely foundational concept of what words are and what language does - that to utter a word is to involuntarily trigger associated thoughts and emotions in another person's brain, and that a speaker is held responsible for doing so - is beyond you
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