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Conceptual simplification has led words to take on bland meanings, I was watching a tiktok the other day in which a girl was looking for a word to fit into the discourse and asked if that was the right word to use.
For a variety of reasons, many words with more or less complex meanings have lost their meaning over time. Today, we have come to terms like rizz or ... I don't know... , terms that are used to simplify the social, or para-social, nature.
I have already written it several times, I will simplify it here. Take a concept wrongly assumed to be binary like irony, ironic interaction is simpler than sexual interaction, ironic interaction (where by interaction in this case I mean positive receptions) requires a good positional interaction (I could have explained it better but to avoid misunderstandings I will not do so) of certain things. Over time irony has become: I make irony you understand it or not.
The advice? Don't abuse these terms, and investigate the nature (meaning) of them. Reducing to black and white, and sometimes only to black, is unsatisfactory and will lead you to fossilise on a few things that cannot be changed.
Just ramblings
Forgive repetitions
For a variety of reasons, many words with more or less complex meanings have lost their meaning over time. Today, we have come to terms like rizz or ... I don't know... , terms that are used to simplify the social, or para-social, nature.
I have already written it several times, I will simplify it here. Take a concept wrongly assumed to be binary like irony, ironic interaction is simpler than sexual interaction, ironic interaction (where by interaction in this case I mean positive receptions) requires a good positional interaction (I could have explained it better but to avoid misunderstandings I will not do so) of certain things. Over time irony has become: I make irony you understand it or not.
The advice? Don't abuse these terms, and investigate the nature (meaning) of them. Reducing to black and white, and sometimes only to black, is unsatisfactory and will lead you to fossilise on a few things that cannot be changed.
Just ramblings
Forgive repetitions