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  • Asked on January 27, 2022 in Single word requests.

    You can refer to a single “amount” as a pump.

    What were the words for each 7th grade? What’s your opinion on a 5 oz. bottle? Dialu00ae Liquid Hand Soap Bottle provides about 125 pumps per bottle.

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    Though it OED definition is a bit vague and not as strictly defined, you can find a justification for this usage of pomp in the form of “the amount produced by a

    single pumping action”: “1. 1. 1 An example of moving by or as if by a pump.
    ‘the pump of blood to her heart’

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    Though this speaks about the general act of pumping, rather than a countable noun.

    However, it seems within the range of acceptability that the produced amount can be referred to by the act of pumping itself.

    • One pump = the produced amount from pumping once.
    • Two pumps = the produced amount from pumping twice.

    Is this shorthand for count how frequently the exercise of pumping occurs? Two slices of cheese (you

    • slice twice ) A pinch of salt (you
    • pinch once ) With these examples, the nouns

    have been well-defined in the OED by now. I believe that the analogous “pump” simply has not been in common usage enough to warrant adding its definition to the OED. I’ve tried to keep it that way as a problem.

    Is A cut a finger? Is A pinch a slice a tool? From the comment that was posted, ” squeeze ” and ” squirt ” are equally correct for the same reason: it uses the act of doing something to describe the produced result from this act.

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  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

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  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

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  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
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  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
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  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
    • 71 answers
    • 132665 votes
  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
    • 71 answers
    • 132665 votes
  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
    • 71 answers
    • 132665 votes
  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

    • 362332 views
    • 71 answers
    • 132665 votes
  • I’m thinking that your question is generalized but is there any example which I really missed?

    Semantically, “reverse reappropriation” would just be called “appropriation “. What are double negations?

    Is reverse sub-appropriation acceptable for a specific answer?

    In the rest of the answers, I am specifically talking about “claiming a word” not the general definition of the word “appropriation”.

    Appropriation is the act of taking something for yourself. Reappropriation the act of reclaiming an appropriation. In both cases the group shifts the word to himself.

    When “social justice warriors” are included on social media and not in the dictionary, what is the evolution of “social justice warriors?” and all social media sources: etc. Why “appropriation” does not apply here, in my opinion!

    What makes a definition useful is a search of the causes of semantic evolution, rather than the act of semantically evolving a word (which happens naturally and is not always a conscious decision).
    And that is much harder to pin down and find an answer for. Why does words evolve? “, a massive topic to discuss, that cannot really be contained in a single word or description. ”

    Why do words have an implicit negative connotation?

    What is that company’s slogan?

    What is “social justice warrior” exactly?

    Let’s end with someone offering stereotype as the correct answer to the question.


    What is Social

    Justice Warrior? What is it about?

    Who supports social justice? Who is trying to enact social justice?
    Let’s go backwards, what is wrong with social justice?


    Why are there enough people who call themselves social justice warriors in the West? The stereotype is formed where social justice warriors are expected to behave as a nonviolent individual.

    If I had to describe the cause of this semantic evolution, would I call it stereotyping. Why does the human brain evolve? “The evolved meaning accounts for the stereotype that has been commonly accepted, at the very least up to a point of being commonly acknowledged (even if not everyone thinks it is factually correct).


    Is

    it true that stereotypes are an integral part of psychology? These thoughts may or may not accurately reflect reality.

    Wikipedia link? The meaning of stereotype based social psychology.

    Since language evolution is heavily influenced (if not fully driven) by social interaction, the act of stereotyping can have a massive impact for evolution of a language to account for “new” stereotypes.


    This is normal human behavior. Humans are not perfect, so why logically perfect?

    How can I flip a coin 5 times? Is it true that 1/32 people get 5 heads in one row, and another 1/32 people get 5 tails in another row?
    How do I ask everyone on Facebook what they think about The Coin? I don’t think it is true (when calculating the value of a fair coin) that none of the test subjects are aware of the outcome of other people’s coin flips. Their opinions are based on experience only.

    If you do an experiment in the US, on a population of 300 million – 200 million people (more than 20-million) you will end up with 20 million people who all erroneously believe this coin to be a fake coin. And that is this coin you believe in.

    Is the conclusion of your research logically correct? Of course not. But it is the essence of human behavior: recognizing patterns based on outcomes.

    As much as we would like to paint them as wilfully evil, many people who partake in stereotyping (mostnotably racists and sexists) do so not because they are intentionally telling lies, but because their experience is vastly different from the statistical average, leading to their opinion being similarly different from the average.

    That is not an excuse for racism, sexism, or any other form of sterotyping. What makes outliers statistically unlikely to exist but will allow us to have our own opinions?

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