I think I’ve lost about 60% of whatever ear for language I had in the last couple of years due to atmosphere of epidemic language abuse. While many have figured out blunt instrument type usage, only a few like dril have figured out how to play “language” artistically well.
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What’s keeping it alive on life support is memes, emoji, and shitpost twitter.
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It's not really new; John Locke complained about this too: "In this kind the first and most palpable abuse is, the using of words without clear and distinct ideas; or, which is worse, signs without anything signified."https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/175/175583/of-the-abuse-of-words/9780141043876.html …
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Hmm I think my idea of abuse is quite different
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