"Fuck Your Language"

Published on 2025/02/16 | Revised on 2025-03-09

Centuries of medieval scholasticism, academic rigor, cultural revolutions have rendered many words, utterly useless

Words can [1]

Words have become so useless, we need to justify invoking them in discussion

"it's X, in the sense that..."

At the end of the day, words mean what the 'brokers of power' aka round-table intelligentsia want them to be

Words have been boiled down to their lowest common denominator, refrosted - deforested

Think of these 'sounds' as a rolling ball of bubblegum, which continuously gets new things tacked onto it

[1] - Thanks Jay Dyer

Addendum

"Why did they call World War I, 'World War I'?"

"It's quite pessimistic numbering, isn't it?"

"Or did they just know it was the start of a franchise"

Gets given explanation

"So, it was called 'The Great War' but not because it was great?"

Philomena Cunk