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https://www.fastcompany.com/90235948/dictionary-com-is-political-now

Language is freedom. One of the more insidious aspects of the dystopian hellscape glimpsed in Orwell’s 1984 is the limited Newspeak with which its residents must express themselves. Frankly, it’s a double-plus bad way of life. As copies of 1984 started flying off digital shelves at a rapid clip after the 2016 election, Dictionary.combegan perfecting its approach to celebrating–and illuminating–the way we use words.

The website’s Twitter account now goes far beyond vocabulary-building blasts, seizing instead on words embedded in the public discourse–and expounding on not only their meaning but the intent behind them.
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Keep that piece of crap. Winners of wars write the history.
 
Fuck that piece of shit.

black
adjective, black·er, black·est.
  1. lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any ofthe rays composing it.
  2. characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness:a black night.
  3. ( sometimes initial capital letter )
    1. pertaining or belonging to any of the various populationscharacterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
    2. African American.
  1. soiled or stained with dirt:That shirt was black within an hour.
  2. gloomy; pessimistic; dismal:a black outlook.
  3. deliberately; harmful; inexcusable:a black lie.
  4. boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening:black words; black looks.
  5. (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.
  6. without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked:His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
  7. indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment:a black mark on one's record.
  8. marked by disaster or misfortune:black areas of drought; Black Friday.
  9. wearing black or dark clothing or armor:the black prince.
  10. based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life:black comedy; black humor.
  11. (of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentiallydangerous, etc.:Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
  12. illegal or underground:The black economy pays no taxes.
  13. showing a profit; not showing any losses:the first black quarter in two years.
  14. deliberately false or intentionally misleading:black propaganda.
  15. British . boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
  16. (of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge;unfinished.
noun
  1. the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white,absorbing all light incident upon it.Compare white(def 19).
  2. ( sometimes initial capital letter )
    1. a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, especially those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
    2. Often Offensive .African American.
  3. black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning:He wore black at the funeral.
  4. Chess , Checkers . the dark-colored men or pieces or squares.
  5. black pigment:lamp black.
  6. Slang . black beauty.
  7. a horse or other animal that is entirely black.
verb (used with object)
  1. to make black; put black on; blacken.
  2. British . to boycott or ban.
  3. to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking.
verb (used without object)
  1. to become black; take on a black color; blacken
adverb
  1. (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.
 
It's garbage:

white
adjective, whit·er, whit·est.
  1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
  2. light or comparatively light in color.
  3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
    1. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:a white neighborhood.
    2. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:white with rage.
    3. silvery, gray, or hoary:white hair.
    4. snowy:a white Christmas.
    5. lacking color; transparent.
    6. (politically) ultraconservative.
    7. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:Fill in the white space below.
    8. Armor . composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric orother covering; alwite.
    9. wearing white clothing:a white monk.
    10. Older Use : Offensive . decent, honorable, or dependable:That's mighty white of you.
    11. auspicious or fortunate.
    12. morally pure; innocent.
    13. without malice; harmless:white magic.
    14. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
    15. British . (of coffee) containing milk.
 
dviss1 said:
It's garbage:

white
adjective, whit·er, whit·est.
  1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
  2. light or comparatively light in color.
  3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
    1. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:a white neighborhood.
    2. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:white with rage.
    3. silvery, gray, or hoary:white hair.
    4. snowy:a white Christmas.
    5. lacking color; transparent.
    6. (politically) ultraconservative.
    7. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:Fill in the white space below.
    8. Armor . composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric orother covering; alwite.
    9. wearing white clothing:a white monk.
    10. Older Use : Offensive . decent, honorable, or dependable:That's mighty white of you.
    11. auspicious or fortunate.
    12. morally pure; innocent.
    13. without malice; harmless:white magic.
    14. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
    15. British . (of coffee) containing milk.
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I'm no more white than you are black.

Let's pick new names and we can leave the dictionary alone. I call shiny.

Oh shit, the first pic that popped up is this.

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I want all to know that I am in NO WAY a shiny supremacist.
 
jlprk said:
You will see no pictures.

http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/
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Hmm. Checking. Well, except for a picture of that book they sell. Smaller words might have a drawing or two way down the page. Anyway, the huge words I look up have no drawings or icons, just the ad for the book. Now you guys, you'll see many drawings for kids, with the words you look up.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I'm no more white than you are black.

Let's pick new names and we can leave the dictionary alone. I call shiny.

Oh shit, the first pic that popped up is this.

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I want all to know that I am in NO WAY a shiny supremacist.
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Maris61? No? Then it must be Sly.
 
Lanny said:
Maris61? No? Then it must be Sly.
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Am I Maris? Is that what you're asking?

I swear on my life that I don't have any alternate accounts. It could be me and one other guy playing all of you for all I know.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Am I Maris? Is that what you're asking?

I swear on my life that I don't have any alternate accounts. It could be me and one other guy playing all of you for all I know.
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No, of course not. Everyone knows you are Sly.
 
Lanny said:
Well, if we're gonna strut our dictionaries -
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
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When we lived in Hawaii in the early 60s, my father's command extended to India, so he took annual 6-week junkets to check his squadrons. He'd put in a few hours in the morning, then have the local officer or sergeant take him for a tour of the local shops. I have a couple of storage units of exotic stuff gathering dust.

One thing he shipped back was a dictionary that was about a foot and a half thick. It was the giant one you used to read about worldwide but only big libraries bought (Merriam-Webster? definitely not some ordinary Funk & Wagnalls) and weighed about 35 pounds (a guess). I used it at home for schoolwork. It was a bargain; I doubt that Asia paid copyright fees when they reproduced books. When we left, that's the last I saw of it, because of the 8000-pound move limit. (When a military family lives overseas, they leave half their household belongings in storage in the U.S.)
 
dviss1 said:
Facts.

But white folk invented those constructs as a way to divide and conquer.

Furthermore they were defined as such to FURTHER divide us.
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I could see it being a subliminal thing. Problem is how do we describe each other without the words? We need words to describe everything.
 
dviss1 said:
Facts.
But white folk invented those constructs as a way to divide and conquer.
Furthermore they were defined as such to FURTHER divide us.
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Good. You got the further/farther distinction right without looking it up.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I'm no more white than you are black.

Let's pick new names and we can leave the dictionary alone. I call shiny.

Oh shit, the first pic that popped up is this.

View attachment 23297

I want all to know that I am in NO WAY a shiny supremacist.
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May as well play the song.

 
dviss1 said:
How the fuck does white mean morally pure or innocent?

And black means all those negative things?

Fuck. That.
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What do you mean negative? :dunno:

That's how I drink it!

Black:
adverb
  1. (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream. :drinkapint:
Also, the entire dictionary is printed in black type. What's up with that? Why not white type?
 
dviss1 said:
Facts.

But white folk invented those constructs as a way to divide and conquer.

Furthermore they were defined as such to FURTHER divide us.
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If those labels are divisive constructs, why use them? :dunno:
 
dviss1 said:
It's garbage:

white
adjective, whit·er, whit·est.
  1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
  2. light or comparatively light in color.
  3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
    1. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:a white neighborhood.
    2. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:white with rage.
    3. silvery, gray, or hoary:white hair.
    4. snowy:a white Christmas.
    5. lacking color; transparent.
    6. (politically) ultraconservative.
    7. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:Fill in the white space below.
    8. Armor . composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric orother covering; alwite.
    9. wearing white clothing:a white monk.
    10. Older Use : Offensive . decent, honorable, or dependable:That's mighty white of you.
    11. auspicious or fortunate.
    12. morally pure; innocent.
    13. without malice; harmless:white magic.
    14. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
    15. British . (of coffee) containing milk.
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I agree, there are several slights here against white.

2,5,6,7,8,10, are all derogatory and/or untrue.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I could see it being a subliminal thing. Problem is how do we describe each other without the words? We need words to describe everything.
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Well if I knew my country of origin I'd tell you.

Irish, Italian, English, etc. can all trace their history back past their immigration. They can be referred to as such. That's been stolen from me...

Me...?

Durrett White... From Kentucky...
 
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