“He who controls the language controls the masses.”...

New York will no longer use 'inmate' for people in prison

"Women" are undefinable
Raids are "executing a warrant"
"Recession" doesn't mean recession
"Inflation" doesn't mean inflation

Why Tyrants Redefine Words

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

So?
They do that in business all he time. Redefine and realign bull sht and all it is is rearranging chairs on a sinking or floating ship.

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how 'bout we stop calling ourselves taxpayers

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"Don't trade what you want most for what you want in a moment." - unknown

RN's don't call them patients anymore. Especially if they work for some big conglomerate insurance co or hospital association. They call them "clients."

on a side note, I was proud to pay my taxes when I was working. I was just raised that way. Try to get the best deal or break but I never even considered "what I didn't take home" from my pay check. But then I never compared salaries either.

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WRONG!!!
you are so full of schitt.
i was just in the hospital two weeks ago and heard the nurses in the hall talking about the patient in 20. referring to me and my room number and releasing me to go home.

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"Don't trade what you want most for what you want in a moment." - unknown

well no i am not wrong. nurses didnt like it but schools still teach it. bully for your nurses. good on them. point is words change for all kinds of reasons.
purse, wallet, pocket purse, pocket book; ice box, refrigerator, Frigidaire. I know some of those are brand names, but people generically used them for the same type of device.
father, pop, daddy, dad, papa--in olden times daddy was a bad word, not now

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and don't forget the big one

Ayds, the diet candy
For 47 years, the product was named Ayds. But sales fell nearly 40%--as the deadly AIDS virus garnered public attention.
It then became Aydslim in the UK and Diet Ayds in the United States.

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“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” —Isaac Asimov

Another idiot cartoon posted above. I smell desperation from the left side.

No, they don't. The meanings of words are being bastardized by the Left to distract people from reality. The fact that you cannot see that speaks volumns about you.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington