(December 10, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Zazzy Wrote: Or exacerbating the disease, maybe. I'm still not convinced that reclaiming nasty words works.
But even if it did, it doesn't appear to me that anything positive would be accomplished, except for taking some of the power away from the word. But the thing about language is there is always a substitute.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
