Speaking With The Right Words
Words Can Hurt Why is saying “that’s so gay” and “you’re retarded” normalized in everyday society? Gay, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “is relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”. How has the word itself come to degrade others? Take the word retarded; it was once […]
The Dictionary Debate: Towards an Inclusive Definition of Love
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Starting in 2012, university students in Korea petitioned to change the dictionary definition of the word “love” (in the romantic sense, which is listed fourth under the entry for “love”) from “passionate feelings of longing between a man and a woman” to “passionate feelings of longing towards someone”. The […]