descriptivism is a weird thing because yes words are fake, fluid, & mushy - but it's undeniable that people voluntarily spend tons of energy defending particular meanings for them
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My crackpot theory is that we have some kind of Dunbar number for important words, and it's very low, probably <100. So you fight for your preferred definition to become the default; it's some kind of semantic battle where Genericide is the goal.
yes I definitely think it’s part of defending some kind of clean, workable model of the world - dunbar number good analogy
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A lot of ideology today, and it's language, is like a minimum viable product for navigating the world. I think I remember
@Aelkus making a thread on this, but it's probably lost to timeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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