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The Game of the Name [pdf]
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stevenpinker.com
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andsoitis
on March 3, 2023
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jtotheh
on March 3, 2023
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see also
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-futili...
jtotheh
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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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