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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year 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 employees.)
In actuality, it’s been the phrase of the 12 months since at the least 2016, when President-elect Trump received the primary time and the left went nuts.
The lefty employees in dictionary land couldn’t deal with being Trumped and began taking part in phrase video games virtually instantly after his victory. Even NPR noted in 2017 that, “The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Has Been Trolling Trump On Twitter For Months.”
You would possibly assume 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 present 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 National Spelling Bee, D-Embarrassment, launched a third-grade thesaurus for its a centesimal anniversary contest. And “womyn” is included as an appropriate alternate spelling for the true phrase, girls. Naturally, in response to a Scripps spokesperson, “The entire phrases used within the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee program are pulled from our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.”
Think about 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 accepted “bazar” as a substitute for 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 academics who hate America, thought-about altering the language. They needed to ditch the word “mother” and swap it out for “birthing mother or father.” “Father” was supposed to vary 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 needs to do to their youngsters.
That plan failed. Even the NEA will need to have realized how insane it was.
One month later, the AP Stylebook decided that “phrases like ‘pregnant individuals’ or ‘individuals looking for abortions’ are acceptable if you need to be inclusive of people that have these experiences however don’t determine as girls.”
That and all types of different kookiness has been embraced by the so-called sciences. Every thing from “chestfeeding” as an alternative of breastfeeding to urging employees to “keep away from unnecessarily gendered language” is accessible on the NIH web site. Staff ought to “use everybody or all as an alternative of women and men and distinguished company or of us as an alternative of girls and gents.” NIH tries to place these phrases in another person’s mouth and provides 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 individuals’ and different gender-inclusive phrases.” The gender-inclusive phrase the story talked about was “penis homeowners.” (It’s important to write your individual jokes for this one. I’ve written a number of and deleted them as a result of I like being employed.) The community ran that article in Could 2024.
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You would possibly assume the left would tire of such empty phrases, however that’s simply not the case. Take a look at the ridiculous phrase Latinx. Liberals created it as a result of they hate that Spanish has female and male gendered phrases, so that they needed a gender-neutral time period for individuals 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 aspect of the comparability.
The article claimed, “‘Latine,’ a gender-neutral solution to describe or seek advice from individuals with Latino origins, is surging in reputation on college campuses, in museums, and amongst researchers and media.”
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Not a kind of teams it mentions is definitely Hispanic or Latino. Each single considered one of them is simply one other elite, lefty ivory tower. So, who do they cite as an knowledgeable? Monica Trasandes, “director for Spanish language media and illustration at GLAAD” – The Homosexual and Lesbian Alliance Towards Defamation.
Speak about not with the ability to learn a room, an election or perhaps a dictionary.
And, sarcastically, the article itself ran in Axios Latino. Not Axios Latine or Latinx.
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The left’s push to make use of dangerous phrases makes me consider how great phrase wonk Susie Dent would possibly describe it. She calls herself, “That girl in Dictionary Nook” and often posts obscure phrases from centuries previous. One in every of 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.
