thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-18, Ben Lehman wrote:
Jason— While you were looking things up in the dictionary, did you look up "violence" or just "violent." If you did look up both, why did you choose to use the one you did?
I could respond further to Ralph, Chris, etc, but it is very clear that we simply are talking about different things, and I have no idea what they are talking about at all. Replace "violent" and "violence" with "spoo" and "sproo" and you'll get a sense of my confusion.
I am pretty much wholly opposed to the redefinition of "violence" as "anything that might possibly upset anyone or make them feel the tiniest bit bad" but, hey, language changes, even the words which we think of as horrific. "Rape" used to mean pre-marital sex.
yrs—
—Ben
