{"id":908,"date":"2024-03-01T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/suggestibility-and-the-language-lemming\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:44:48","slug":"suggestibility-and-the-language-lemming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/suggestibility-and-the-language-lemming\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestibility and the Language Lemming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The language lemming hears a word or phrase, thinks it &#39;cool,&#39; and just has to use it whether or not it makes sense. &#39;Demo&#39; below is being used as an abbreviation of &#39;demolish.&#39; Now there is something dubious about the excessive use of abbreviations these days, but let that pass.&#0160; The point I want to make is that, below, the correct word is &#39;replace&#39; not &#39;demolish.&#39;&#0160; Of course, you, or rather a highly suggestible &#39;liberal&#39; language lemming, <em>could<\/em> demolish a carpet that has been removed, although&#0160; it is not clear how one would go about doing that.&#0160; The point is that a replacement is not a demolition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Does language matter? Well, does it matter if we refer to illegal aliens as &#39;migrants&#39;? If not, then it won&#39;t matter that &#39;migrant&#39; is now being replaced by &#39;newcomer.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3acb6ca200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demo the carpet\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3acb6ca200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3acb6ca200d-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Demo the carpet\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The language lemming hears a word or phrase, thinks it &#39;cool,&#39; and just has to use it whether or not it makes sense. &#39;Demo&#39; below is being used as an abbreviation of &#39;demolish.&#39; Now there is something dubious about the excessive use of abbreviations these days, but let that pass.&#0160; The point I want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/suggestibility-and-the-language-lemming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suggestibility and the Language Lemming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-suggestibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}