Hm. What I'm trying to say is that there is no real sense of the term. There is our usage, and there is their usage. Both are linguistically valid because both are ways people use the language and assume meaning.
Theirs just happens to be despicable from our perspective. Oh, and vice versa.
Basically we're speaking warring languages, and that's an important thing to keep in mind when looking at their rhetoric & why it works better than ours on them.
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Date: 2010-01-16 12:03 am (UTC)What I'm trying to say is that there is no real sense of the term. There is our usage, and there is their usage. Both are linguistically valid because both are ways people use the language and assume meaning.
Theirs just happens to be despicable from our perspective. Oh, and vice versa.
Basically we're speaking warring languages, and that's an important thing to keep in mind when looking at their rhetoric & why it works better than ours on them.