PugJesus@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoWhen lunatics start talking about expelling all Israelis 'Back to Europe' instead of integrating them in a one-state solutionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square348fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down187
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minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·24 days agoWords that people misuse are still meaningful when the reader and writer both understand the same meaning. I expect you understand OP perfectly well.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·edit-224 days agoWords that people misuse for the sake of propaganda are intentionally misleading, regardless of how any in-group understands it.
minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·24 days agoYour use of the word “intentionally” is quite confusing to me. Intentionally misleading on whose part? The word’s part, or the in-group’s?
Words that people misuse are still meaningful when the reader and writer both understand the same meaning. I expect you understand OP perfectly well.
Words that people misuse for the sake of propaganda are intentionally misleading, regardless of how any in-group understands it.
Your use of the word “intentionally” is quite confusing to me. Intentionally misleading on whose part? The word’s part, or the in-group’s?