Vocabulary is power. Language empowers and excludes. It elevates and humiliates. Language records stories and presents them as impartial records, when they are anything but.
Vocabulary exists to provide insights into the worlds of specialists and enthusiasts and hobbyists the world over.
Control over the meaning of words is control over meaning itself. We give meaning through words. Remove meaning through words. We prioritize with words. We ignore with words. What does and does not exist in the public Imagination is based on what we have words to describe. The taboo and the unspeakable are controlled by those who control the words we use.
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