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Derek Young

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What are some words or phrases that you would redefine or remove from your language?

An idea to challenge the current models of meanings.

Topics: languge models of meaning phrases redefinition remove vocabulary words
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    Branislav Ivkovic 10+

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    Jun 18 2012: Honestly, I love words. I love languages and I think that each word no matter how bad its meaning is, is in a sense, beautiful. Well, the exception are the 'new' words (I wouldn't even call them words) that are used in texting, emails and such. So definitely those :)
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      Derek Young 30+

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      Jun 18 2012: You could redefine words instead of removing them. =)

      Like "I don't like the way this word is interpretted, but this word should actually mean 'this', then it would make more sense...."; something like that... =)
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        Branislav Ivkovic 10+

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        Jun 18 2012: hm, you mean like how horrible, terrible and horrific mean bad, and yet terrific means good? :)
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          Derek Young 30+

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          Jun 19 2012: Yea, in a sense, and how 'full of awe' means amazed and 'awful' used to mean the same thing, but was redefined somewhere through social interactions in the english culture to mean horrible, which is also bad. =)
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        Kevin Jacobson

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        Jun 20 2012: (About what you said to me) I doubt you use it to much though. Many of the kids at my school are wanna be gangsters that think they're tough when they're really just ridiculous.
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          Derek Young 30+

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          Jun 21 2012: But, I am a total wanna be gangsta yo! LOL! Jk...I try to incorporate witty banter into my conversation and "that's what she said" is irresistable to my personality. I prefer to be to the point with academic language, usually, but sometimes I resort to super slang for certain people to understand me. =P

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