Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by p0pcult on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:12AM
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>We should be able to look at how we are using language and identify that it is problematic without requiring a list of words.
Yup! I think that humans are so heterogeneous that basically everything requires a context to derive the full meaning of a thing. The same language, wielded in two different occasions, can have vastly different meanings.
As a linguistics professor once mentioned:
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like an apple, although if the play is bad enough, even fruit flies like an arrow."
Yup! I think that humans are so heterogeneous that basically everything requires a context to derive the full meaning of a thing. The same language, wielded in two different occasions, can have vastly different meanings.
As a linguistics professor once mentioned:
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like an apple, although if the play is bad enough, even fruit flies like an arrow."