atw: Re: Youse
- From: David Godley <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:17:52 +1100
I have semi-seriously argued that this trend can be traced to the widespread
use of the thesaurus in schools. Once upon a time the thesaurus was a tome
that that was used to highlight the subtle differences in meaning. So that
the writer could select the word with the right shade of meaning. Now, for
the most part, it is seen as a list of synonyms.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 15:43, Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> My issue with the supposed modernisation of language is the loss of
> meaning. Once we had two words, psychopath and sociopath, that had two
> clearly different meanings. Now both meanings have been absorbed into
> psychopath. Once we had two states, mental breakdown and emotional
> breakdown to differentiate between two entirely different human states of
> stress. Now we only have one.
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