For Pete's sake, people, you don't "sew dissent", you sow it. Like you sow seeds in a field, planting them so that they grow. Needles and thread are not involved! How does that even make sense
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Retweet me in five years when pressure of mass typos gets this sense of "sew" into the dictionary and I become wrong
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Ah, language, the only discipline where if you are wrong and loud about it for long enough you eventually become right
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cc my favorite descriptivist,
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It's almost as though... communication is a game with two players... and the rules are determined-- nah, forget it, I'm gonna go have lunch
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Don't forget quantum physics
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Makes me nauseous.
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I actually think either metaphor could work (are you planting seeds of dissent and then nurturing it, or are you constructing it from the threads that already exist?), but agree that until the metaphor shifts it is currently "sow".
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(I guess the second would be knitting dissent. Still, some sort of dissent-construction could work)
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