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user-inactivated · 3856 days ago · link · · parent · post: When Slang Becomes a Slur - Geoffrey Nunberg - The Atlantic
I haven't had time to go through the whole article yet, but it's pretty crazy how much we take linguistics and dictionaries for granted. Nobody really thinks about what gets put into a dictionary and why, who gets the say in putting things into the dictionary, what the contexts around the time period a word is placed are, and how that placement in the dictionary can have an impact on discussions to come.