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The Game of the Name [pdf] (stevenpinker.com)
1 point by andsoitis on March 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



my favorite sentence: "the euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are in charge:give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name."




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