I agree with you but sometimes, esp if you come from a non-English speaking culture, it takes a lot to understand which words carry demeaning tone. I honestly thought "ladies" and "women" were interchangeable till now. But I'm learning and tankful for y'all.
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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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Oh, God, no. Of course words within a basic context have fixed (fuzzy, with deviations, but the mean is known to a good enough degree) meanings, that's how we communicate. Is this how you would defend somebody who used the n-word? Awful logic.
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O I think I do! But let's explore. I've used terrible words, but with no terrible connotation on my side. Then finding out (through the reactions of others only, not by looking in some Platonic dictionary), that these connotations existed. After which I stopped using that word.
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That's how I'm learning (spoken) English. Through making mistakes and sometimes offending others.
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Once I said "get lost" to somebody and I didn't even mean it. LOL — worst part is, it was just ~1.5 years ago. *hides*
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At work too. I was like "OMG sorry" but obviously it was already a weird/jokey situation. I have a feeling they (eventually) forgave me.
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I think I was making a joke like "why not arrive late or get lost on the way" but it came out "get lost". The context was something like they had to go somewhere but they wanted to be fashionably late or not seem desperate.
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I think people who are close to you and know you are often forgiving when you mess your words up. Thankfully.
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Yeah. Sadly not close to me in that case — but I tried to make it up to her.
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Also if you are reading: I'm sorry!
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