Stock Rants #2: "Polyamory" and word origins.

[kiya]

I was going to write up a bunch of these so I could just reference them later, and then I got distracted by a shiny object and just did the one. And then I was reminded last night, and this is the one that came out last night, so I am storing it.


Okay. I know that you think the "Polyamory is wrong! It should be 'multiamory' or 'polyphilia'! Mixing roots is wrong!" is cute. So here's the deal: you can think it's cute, so long as you turn in your ipsomobile license and accept having your teleopticon privileges revoked.

And maybe it's not "everything associated with a minority group has to go through an extra layer of justification" in its background, and I really need to grow a sense of humor or something (see userpicture), but frankly, the idea that suddenly my bastard whoreson of a language needs to practice stringent root purity is ludicrous. English is a language of Norman knights trying to pick up Saxon barmaids (and all parties involved are fooling around with the Celts on the side because they have sexy syntax) that aggressively pursues other languages to beat them up for their stray vocabulary, and someone's prating on about a coinage having hybrid parentage? Get. Bloody. Real. ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!


Also, anyone who finds this joke entertaining or worthwhile who also has ever used the so-called 'word' "compersion", which, in addition to sounding like a syndromic disease that is dismissed by the medical establishment as patient hysteria, has no fucking roots at all and is in fact lexical gibberish, needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot, twice, because there is no possible cure for that level of unmitigated damnfoolishness.

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[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

This is particularly good: you can think it's cute, so long as you turn in your ipsomobile license and accept having your teleopticon privileges revoked. I find that when people vigorously object to something in the language, almost always they themselves use similar words or constructions frequently, without a second thought.