I really wish people online would stop telling me what fucking words to use
But then what would they superciliously lecture you on to feel like they made a difference from their tiny insignificant corner of the world?
I think a lot of people misread intent. No one is policing your conversations in your living room, but if you’re an author (of any medium of art) your work necessarily interfaces with an audience (arguably you can create art without anyone else ever seeing it, let’s take that as read) — if you’re attempting to communicate with an audience its naive to think they won’t have opinions on it, or that it can’t be improved.
I like to imagine if you said this to James Joyce, or Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Samuel Beckett (or other authors known for being exacting) … They could get pissy about it sure, but they could also say “What an excellent point, I could be way more specific, accurate and poetic in my prose.”
While you are absolutely entitled to your opinion, do you not think it’s a fruitful line of enquiry in terms of literary criticism and dramaturgy, similar to how using “nice” as every adjective is considered unimaginative?
But blind isn’t just a visual impairment?
It’s just a word that has two meanings, so stop trying to be offended about someone using the other meaning.
People just trying to be offended for the sake of it.
Stop calling that thing in your window a blind you sightist, that’s a telescoping sun repeller
Blind fury. Blind to someone’s faults, blinded by love. Poker blinds. Types of medical trials. Venetian blinds.
Getting angry at other well-established uses of words seems like fun.
I recall John Barnes, an English footballer, having a hissy fit because some sports broadcaster had referred to a stadium crush as ‘a black day for football’. John Barnes said it was yet another example of a racist connotation of the word. Nope, John, it’s just another meaning, you word hogger.
Tbf, in technology and IT the term “master” is often paired with “slave”, so the connection is a lot more reasonable.
Will people please stop using lazy as a synonym for bad writing?
There are so many reasons why someone might be bad at writing and many of them are far from “lazy”.
If there’s in thing about us lazy folk, it is being able to write as concisely as possible to conserve energy.
Not only is the use of “lazy” rude it is uninformed.
And will people please stop using “uninformed” as a synonym for people who aren’t very smart.
There are so many reasons why…
I’d say blind and ignorant have very different meanings.
Being blind to something means you are unable to register it, you might be searching for it but can’t find it even though it’s right in front of you, it’s a sensory thing. Even being blind to social cues is a sort of sensory thing.
Being ignorant means you can see it but, perhaps due to a lack of open mindedness, decide that it is something else or assign incorrect characteristics to it even though eg measurements have shown different things. This could be due to a lack of trust, an agenda, or something else entirely.
Both of them make it difficult for you to learn the truth, but the causes and problems you experience are different.
don’t worry, “ignorant” will become an ableist term too, soon enough
