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Why does an American Dialect Society even exist, and how does it have that many members?
1 posted on 01/04/2020 7:05:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The girl on Billions wanted to be called “they”

It was so disconcerting to listen to how that changed the conversations in the show.


2 posted on 01/04/2020 7:09:36 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Olog-hai

These must be the people in charge of twisting the language in order to twist the society.


3 posted on 01/04/2020 7:09:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai
The word of the decade is "like." Just listen to any conversation and see how many times it is used, almost every fifth or sixth word. Hannity is addicted to it. Listen and you cannot miss it in any conversation. It is as if we have become almost illiterate, uncultered.
5 posted on 01/04/2020 7:12:43 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Olog-hai

One thing interesting about the transgender population is that the vast majority of ‘transgender’ surgeries done are not genital surgery (only ~0.5%). I wonder what that means?


8 posted on 01/04/2020 7:17:13 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Olog-hai

You know hoy they are.


10 posted on 01/04/2020 7:18:22 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Olog-hai

Sick in “their” heads.


12 posted on 01/04/2020 7:21:48 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Olog-hai

Screw that.


13 posted on 01/04/2020 7:24:27 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Olog-hai

The Word of the Decade is MAGA!


14 posted on 01/04/2020 7:24:57 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Olog-hai

Linguists should give us a list of all the words we are no longer allowed to use so we can see how anti-linguistic linguists are.


15 posted on 01/04/2020 7:28:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: Olog-hai
I nominate wokehole.

I think we all know what it means.

16 posted on 01/04/2020 7:32:36 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Olog-hai

Are these designations intended to be good or bad? Maybe neither but, to me, they just further demonstrate the deterioration of the language and the culture.


17 posted on 01/04/2020 7:37:35 PM PST by be-baw
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To: Olog-hai

The Philistines have won.


19 posted on 01/04/2020 7:48:09 PM PST by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: Olog-hai

Who promotes this dreck? No normal people have ever heard anyone speak this way.


20 posted on 01/04/2020 7:58:06 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Olog-hai
Papa is so proud.


23 posted on 01/04/2020 8:08:21 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Olog-hai

Doesn’t calling an individual “they” imply there are multiple personalities residing in them. I think they used to call this schizophrenia.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?


24 posted on 01/04/2020 8:29:40 PM PST by ImpBill (Conservative voter sans political Party!)
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Cunning.


25 posted on 01/04/2020 9:06:13 PM PST by Rio
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To: Olog-hai

"They Live"

27 posted on 01/05/2020 5:45:49 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Olog-hai

Word of the decade:

Fake

Fake birth certificate
Fake statistics
Fake polls
Fake primary elections (democrats)
Fake outrage
Fake news
fake charges of impeachment
etc.


28 posted on 01/05/2020 5:57:31 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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