@very-rusty saidThis is fine by me. But thank you for your observation.
From the amount of responses you are getting it appears more than myself and mike69 are not interested in commenting on your subject matter.
@mchill saidDoes the term "psychobabble" mean more or less the same thing when baby boomers use it [or used to use it back in the 70s] as when millennials use it?
Yes - sometimes this happens over years, or even generations. Old baby boomers such as myself no doubt remember the term "psychobabble" a term first made popular in the early 70's, going in and out of style every decade or so. It's not very important in the scheme of things, but is sometimes amusing to hear millennials throwing around the same verbal stuff my generation invented all those years ago.
@fmf said"Friendly fire" certainly, and perhaps "collateral damage".
"The moment a word or phrase begins to rise in public value, a variety of interest groups seek either to destroy its reputation or, more often, to co-opt it. In this latter case, they don't necessarily adopt the meaning of the word or phrase. They simp-ly want control of it in order to apply a different meaning that suits their own purposes." [John Ralston Saul]
Have you come across this?
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@fmf said"Communism"
Have you come across this?
It appears that, in common [but partisan] political parlance in the U.S., it means things like distributing vaccines amid a global pandemic, enacting policies to protect the environment, and levying taxes. No longer does it mean a political system in which all property is publicly owned. Apparently!
@fmf said"Troll" and "trolling".
Have you come across this?
Misuse/overuse of these words has rinsed them of much of their [potential or former] meaning.
Instead, they are merely used as indicators of disagreement or disapproval.
People incessantly calling other people "trolls" on message boards are, more often than not, the actuals "trolls" in a given situation.
@fmf saidÖkosteuer
"The moment a word or phrase begins to rise in public value, a variety of interest groups seek either to destroy its reputation or, more often, to co-opt it. In this latter case, they don't necessarily adopt the meaning of the word or phrase. They simp-ly want control of it in order to apply a different meaning that suits their own purposes." [John Ralston Saul]
Have you come across this?
In Germany the ecological parties/mioovements lobbied to impose taxes on squandering behaviour and lower taxes on responsible behaviour. (Steuer(tax) in German has a ring to steering.
The red/green coalition under Schröder then introduced the "Ökosteuer" on Fuel (for cars not for planes) to improve the budget balance... The word fell into negative connotation in all groups.
GENDER
Gender had traditionally been synonymous with sex but special interest groups moved
to change the definition of gender dysphoria to new gender creations so that trans people can get protections
from the "discrimination by gender" clause of the constitution.
To wit: a white man that imagines himself as a black lesbian with a foot fetish has constituted a new gender.
@earl-of-trumps saidThe USA Government has removed the word mother from its latest budget legislation and replaced mother with 'birthing people' cos it seems men can give birth now.
GENDER
Gender had traditionally been synonymous with sex but special interest groups moved
to change the definition of gender dysphoria to new gender creations so that trans people can get protections
from the "discrimination by gender" clause of the constitution.
To wit: a white man that imagines himself as a black lesbian with a foot fetish has constituted a new gender.
@the-gravedigger saidWhoosh!
The USA Government has removed the word mother from its latest budget legislation and replaced mother with 'birthing people' cos it seems men can give birth now.
-VR