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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some kind of memetic defense that we get hypnotized into participating in, and maybe that's good!
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It is. Two things can be true simultaneously: 1) Words have only conventional meanings. 2) It’s important to have largely consistent conventions so we can talk to each other legibly, and messing with definitions to win arguments is a tragedy of the commons.
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There is only one truth and that truth is cube
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