> The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed…
Another thing; even though this effort might be doomed to fail, do you think there are good reasons to attempt to change language in such a way?
In general, I tend to be against changing language, but I'm open to being convinced that a certain effort might be worthwhile.
I'm also somewhat pessimistic due to thinking that some other changes I've seen might be inevitable in the long run (seeing how these changes are being used by people my age, I hope it is just fashion - oh and I'm not talking here about changes to the English language).
> Another thing; even though this effort might be doomed to fail, do you think there are good reasons to attempt to change language in such a way?
I'm not categorically against it. I'm not in the right country to properly judge "master/slave". Those words have no association with people to me. But I don't care about "master/slave".
Though I can't find it now, I remember encountering cases where actually "blocklist" was a less descriptive term, even misleading.
I think it's great even though "crewed" is a terrible word, I can't think of a better one, and it's good to change away from "manned".
I'm perfectly willing to surrender the word "niggardly".
So it depends.
Banning words like "ninja", "dojo", "white glove treatment", "blind"... like... really?
What I think is doomed to fail is banning any language that involves color.
I'd say some words are in a "grey area", but I've seen people wanting to ban that term.
Mandating language like this is double plus ungood.
https://biblehub.com/john/3-19.htm
> The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed…
Another thing; even though this effort might be doomed to fail, do you think there are good reasons to attempt to change language in such a way?
In general, I tend to be against changing language, but I'm open to being convinced that a certain effort might be worthwhile.
I'm also somewhat pessimistic due to thinking that some other changes I've seen might be inevitable in the long run (seeing how these changes are being used by people my age, I hope it is just fashion - oh and I'm not talking here about changes to the English language).