I think that the title including the Rant-Label seems to define some of the thought process as "this bothers me, I will flail at it to half explain and half complain". Though again, interpretation limitation on the Rant label may apply.
The sociopolitics of language gets even more complicated, in a kind of 1984, stripping out possible interpretation way. Though there is also the problem of redefinition of perfectly good language that other people try to do in order to "defend" whatever idea they have and fit it into an existing set. For some reason people seem to be reluctant to make up new words (or get attacked by others if they do and then attempt to explain them).
"I am a switch." Okay, well, if the question is "do you both beat people and get beat?" I don't need more information. . . . Hence, one meaning of "Labels are limiting."
Or, it could mean "flip me and the room shall illuminate!".
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Date: 2010-03-07 04:17 am (UTC)The sociopolitics of language gets even more complicated, in a kind of 1984, stripping out possible interpretation way. Though there is also the problem of redefinition of perfectly good language that other people try to do in order to "defend" whatever idea they have and fit it into an existing set. For some reason people seem to be reluctant to make up new words (or get attacked by others if they do and then attempt to explain them).
"I am a switch." Okay, well, if the question is "do you both beat people and get beat?" I don't need more information. . . . Hence, one meaning of "Labels are limiting."
Or, it could mean "flip me and the room shall illuminate!".