I thought we’d let guys in if they do not mind being referred to by the (gender-neutral) ‘girls’ ;)
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For me that would be stretching the meaning of 'fixed' too much (which in a meta-sort-of-way would prove my point, perhaps)
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So I came in to my office one day and I tidy up the room, everything has a fixed place. A week later I come in and tidy again with everything getting a new fixed place. So yes, exactly, they are fixed even though they also change places.
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I come from a culture which likes to play with words meanings. For instance, to state that someone is witty we say "Eres muy puta" which literally means you are quite a whore. But I bet many ppl wouldn't like their kids to hear it. Words also convey social implicit meanings!

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Yep. Saying a word has a given meaning in a given context says nothing about how it might change in another content or at another time.
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The reason I dislike this: "Which proves it is ultimately about what the speaker means by the words and what the hearer means by the words, not with some objective fact about any particular word."
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Is because it implies, and I may have misunderstood you of course, that speakers and listeners share some equal "blame" so to speak.
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So if I say "you run like a girl" to a grown woman, then she shares blame with me if she gets upset at my rude and sexist outburst.
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That's not how speaking and listening works IMHO.

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Point being, that it changes over time and people do not necessarily agree. Also there are big difference between UK and NL (Been following the hashtag for a while)
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I never claimed meanings do not gradually or even very quickly change over time.
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