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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year 2024 is ‘polarization’, which it defines as ‘division into two sharply different opposites’. (The word beat out “brain rot,” but one wonders if this happened among dictionary staff as well.)
In reality, it has been the word of the year since 2016, when newly elected President Trump won for the first time and the left went crazy.
The left-wing staff in dictionary land couldn’t handle being trumped and started playing word games almost immediately after his victory. Even NPR took notice in 2017 that “the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been trolling Trump on Twitter for months.”
You might think that the left would get tired of such empty words, but that’s just not the case. (iStock)
The company’s pun is part of a larger left-wing strategy to coin new words or redefine existing terms to fit the liberal narrative. We’ve seen examples repeatedly in recent years – “birth person,” “Latinx,” and, most recently, “womyn.”
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee, D-shyness, has released a third grade word list for the 100th anniversary contest. And ‘womyn’ is included as an acceptable alternative spelling for the real word, women. Of course, according to a Scripps spokesperson, “All words used in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program are taken from our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.”
Consider me shocked. (Adjective: struck by a sudden mental or emotional disturbance.) But that’s really just propaganda. Even the left-wing Urban Dictionary describes the word “womyn” as “a term used by feminists who believe that the word ‘man’ in the word ‘woman’ makes women a subgroup of men.” (Scripps also approved “bazar” as an alternative to bazaar, which is just bizarre.)
Even more controversial than that spin is the attempt to eliminate mothers from our language to appease transgender extremists. In July 2022, the NEA, the breakaway union of teachers who hate America, considered changing the language. That’s what they wanted throw away the word ‘mother’ and exchange it for ‘birthing parent’. “Father” would change to “non-birthing parent.” That’s because real parents – both mothers and fathers – don’t like what NEA wants to do to their children.
That plan failed. Even the NEA must have realized how insane it was.
A month later, concluded the AP Stylebook that “phrases like ‘pregnant people’ or ‘people seeking abortion’ are acceptable if you want to include people who have these experiences but do not identify as women.”
That and all kinds of other crazy things have been embraced by the so-called sciences. Everything from “breastfeeding” instead of breastfeeding to urging staff to “avoid unnecessary gendered language” is available on the NIH website. Employees should use “all or everyone instead of men and women, and distinguished guests or people instead of ladies and gentlemen.” NIH is trying to put these words in someone else’s mouth and provides instructions on its site with a prominent link to the AP Stylebook.
The liberal media either defended or advocated this nonsense. And still. CNN wrote: “The argument for saying ‘pregnant people’ and other gender-inclusive expressions.” The gender-inclusive phrase mentioned in the story was “penis owners.” (You have to write your own jokes for this. I’ve written and deleted a few because I like having work.) The network published that article in May 2024.
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You might think that the left would get tired of such empty words, but that’s just not the case. Look at the ridiculous word Latinx. Liberals created it because they hate that Spanish has masculine and feminine gender words, so they wanted a gender-neutral term for people descended from Spain or Latin America. But despite years of effort, Pew Research reported in September that “4% of Latino adults say they have used Latinx to describe themselves, and little has changed from the 3% who said the same in 2019.”
Instead of giving up, lefties simply try a new fake term. In April, Axios wrote, “Latine is the new Latinx.” That’s the same as saying Vice President Kamala Harris is the new Michael Dukakis. It’s not particularly complementary on either side of the equation.
The article claimed, “‘Latine,’ a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people with Latino ancestry, is becoming increasingly popular on college campuses, in museums, and among researchers and media.”
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Not one of the groups mentioned therein are actually Hispanic or Latino. Every single one of them is just another elite, left-wing ivory tower. Who do they call as an expert? Monica Trasandes, “Director of Spanish-Language Media and Representation at GLAAD” – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Talk about not being able to read an audience, an election or even a dictionary.
And ironically, the article itself was in Axios Latino. Not Axios Latine or Latinx.
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The left’s compulsion to use bad words reminds me of how beautifully worded Susie Dent might describe it. She calls herself ‘That woman in the Dictionary Corner’ and regularly posts obscure terms from centuries gone by. One of her words of the day from August was: “‘Podsnappian’ (from Charles Dickens): blinkered, self-righteous and convinced that everyone else should see things the way you see them.”
That seems to me to be the last word. It aptly describes the grammatical idiots on the left.
