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Should words be allowed to change their meaning over time?
This is not a question regarding whether or not the meaning of words do change.
This is a question asking if it's more beneficial and constructive to encourage language to be conservative and precise to it's literal breakdown and etymology as a means of maximizing clarity and understanding?
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Is it wiser to let language be free and natural to its changes, regardless of whether its a result of stylish, poetic, trendy rhetoric, historical additions and trimmings, or naivety and lack of sophistication?
What's your guy's opinion? Where do you sit on this subject? Is there a difference between
it's application on a colloquial/conversational level versus a legal/political level?
Last edited by taoistscholar_v2 : 13-02-2019 at 09:47 PM.
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