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Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 14:59, September 12, 2013
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::::The English language as a whole does grow over time, but not at a geometric rate. Yet conservative terms do grow geometrically, which demonstrates that the ratio of conservative to non-conservative words is increasing.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:07, 12 September 2013 (EDT)
::::The English language as a whole does grow over time, but not at a geometric rate. Yet conservative terms do grow geometrically, which demonstrates that the ratio of conservative to non-conservative words is increasing.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:07, 12 September 2013 (EDT)
:::::Mr. Schlafly stated "...''choosing conservative words is not a precise science, but it is more scientific than most of what liberals consider to be science.''" For the sake of brevity, I'm only going to respond to the first part of this statement. I fully accept the fact that the identification of conservative words and phrases is not an "precise science". Frankly it doesn't appear to be much more than a unsubstantiated assertion at this point. If this phenomenon was so obvious and undisputed, dictionary entries would look like this:
:::::*'''charisma''' \kə-ˈriz-mə\ ''conservative noun'' - a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm...
:::::*'''cheapskate''' \ˈchēp-ˌskāt\ ''liberal noun'' - a pejorative word to describe the thrifty spending habits of fiscally responsible conservatives...
:::::But dictionaries don't look like that, do they? If this trend truly exists independent of Mr. Schlafly's own personal word selection talents, then there should be an objective standard for determining the political etymology of a word. What is that standard? --[[User:DonnyC|DonnyC]] 10:59, 12 September 2013 (EDT)