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Merriam-Webster’s phrase of the 12 months for 2024 is “polarization,” which it defines as “division into two sharply distinct opposites.” (The phrase beat out “mind rot,” however one wonders if it did so amongst dictionary workers.)
In actuality, it’s been the phrase of the 12 months since at the least 2016, when President-elect Trump gained the primary time and the left went nuts.
The lefty workers in dictionary land couldn’t deal with being Trumped and began taking part in phrase video games nearly instantly after his victory. Even NPR famous in 2017 that, “The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Has Been Trolling Trump On Twitter For Months.”
You would possibly suppose the left would tire of such empty phrases, however that’s simply not the case. (iStock)
The corporate’s phrase play is an element of a bigger leftist technique to both make up new phrases or redefine current phrases to make them match the liberal narrative. We’ve seen repeated examples within the final a number of years – “birthing particular person,” “Latinx” and, the newest, “womyn.”
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The Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee, D-Embarrassment, launched a third-grade thesaurus for its a hundredth anniversary contest. And “womyn” is included as an appropriate alternate spelling for the actual phrase, girls. Naturally, in response to a Scripps spokesperson, “All the phrases used within the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee program are pulled from our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.”
Take into account me shocked. (Adjective: stricken with sudden psychological or emotional disturbance.) However that’s actually simply propaganda. Even the lefty City Dictionary describes the phrase “womyn” as, “a time period utilized by feminists who really feel that having the phrase ‘man’ within the phrase ‘girl’ makes girls a subset of males.” (Scripps additionally authorized “bazar” as an alternative choice to bazaar, which is simply weird.)
Much more controversial than that spin is the try and eradicate moms from our language, to appease transgender extremists. In July 2022, the NEA, the unhinged union of lecturers who hate America, thought-about altering the language. They wished to ditch the phrase “mom” and swap it out for “birthing mother or father.” “Father” was supposed to alter to “non-birthing mother or father.” That’s as a result of precise dad and mom – each moms and dads – don’t like what NEA desires to do to their youngsters.
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That plan failed. Even the NEA will need to have realized how insane it was.
One month later, the AP Stylebook determined that “phrases like ‘pregnant folks’ or ‘folks looking for abortions’ are acceptable while you wish to be inclusive of people that have these experiences however don’t establish as girls.”
That and all types of different kookiness has been embraced by the so-called sciences. Every thing from “chestfeeding” as a substitute of breastfeeding to urging workers to “keep away from unnecessarily gendered language” is offered on the NIH web site. Staff ought to “use everybody or all as a substitute of women and men and distinguished visitors or of us as a substitute of girls and gents.” NIH tries to place these phrases in another person’s mouth and offers directions on its web site with a outstanding hyperlink to the AP Stylebook.
The liberal media defended this nonsense or advocated for it. And nonetheless do. CNN wrote, “The case for saying ‘pregnant folks’ and different gender-inclusive phrases.” The gender-inclusive phrase the story talked about was “penis homeowners.” (You must write your individual jokes for this one. I’ve written a couple of and deleted them as a result of I like being employed.) The community ran that article in Might 2024.
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You would possibly suppose the left would tire of such empty phrases, however that’s simply not the case. Have a look at the ridiculous phrase Latinx. Liberals created it as a result of they hate that Spanish has female and male gendered phrases, in order that they wished a gender-neutral time period for folks descended from Spain or Latin America. However regardless of years of effort, Pew Analysis reported in September that “4% of Latino adults say they’ve used Latinx to explain themselves, little modified from the three% who stated the identical in 2019.”
As a substitute of giving up, lefties merely attempt a brand new bogus time period. In April, Axios wrote that, “Latine is the brand new Latinx.” That’s like saying Vice President Kamala Harris is the brand new Michael Dukakis. It’s not particularly complimentary to both facet of the comparability.
The article claimed, “‘Latine,’ a gender-neutral technique to describe or discuss with folks with Latino origins, is surging in recognition on college campuses, in museums, and amongst researchers and media.”
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Not a type of teams it mentions is definitely Hispanic or Latino. Each single certainly one of them is simply one other elite, lefty ivory tower. So, who do they cite as an professional? Monica Trasandes, “director for Spanish language media and illustration at GLAAD” – The Homosexual and Lesbian Alliance Towards Defamation.
Discuss not having the ability to learn a room, an election or perhaps a dictionary.
And, mockingly, the article itself ran in Axios Latino. Not Axios Latine or Latinx.
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The left’s push to make use of unhealthy phrases makes me consider how great phrase wonk Susie Dent would possibly describe it. She calls herself, “That girl in Dictionary Nook” and repeatedly posts obscure phrases from centuries previous. One among her phrases of the day from August was, “‘Podsnappian’ (from Charles Dickens): blinkered, self-congratulatory, and satisfied that everybody else ought to see issues the best way you do.”
That sounds just like the final phrase to me. It aptly describes the grammar goons on the left.
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