• squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 个月前

    Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

    Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

      Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

      Aha! Who defined that? Big Dictionary, that’s who.

  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Merriam dgaf. Their job is to figure out what words people are using, and document them. People could invent the word “bumblesausagecock” and if it caught on, they would add it.

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    I really don’t understand why anyone would get mad over any word being added to the dictionary unless the definition is obviously biased. I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.

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      I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.

      Hey it is me JD Vance, I was and still am upset, kids giggling reminds me other people experience joy and love and then I start to feel like an empty monster.

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        4 个月前

        I hear fucking a couch is a great way to relieve stress, and feel better, you ever tried that?

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          Yes yes I do of course but I am afraid the couches are getting woke and will start demanding all the same silly stuff women get upset at me about.

          Earlier after I lay in post-couchital bliss with a lover she started harassing me about how I don’t think God intended couches to wear covers that deny members access to their inner folds. I had to scream at her that Jesus only intended this for masculine reclining chairs that must have their vulnerable orifices protected and that femine couches are only penetrated when they want to be.

          Why won’t anyone listen to me, I am the Vice President Of The United States!?! Don’t I deserve respect? I am pretty sure the law says people have to respect me even International Law at the UN does, this isn’t fair.