RE: Language as an Obstacle to Actuality | Communication Paradigms - Part 1
I know completely where you are coming from. The politicially correct shaping of language is everywhere, it's an agenda.
We have the same thing over here, certain words are deemed "taboo" and we are indoctrinated to use new terms instead to not hurt anyone's feelings (which is completely arbitrary) just like you have described. Some of these words have changed 4-5 times but still mean the same thing, only the last version is somehow inacceptable today but the new word (like "able-bodied person" or whatever the fuck) is somehow totally neutral and alright. It still means someone who is handicapped or retarded and people take these as great insults today when they were never meant that way to begin with. They have slowly turned into being seen as insults because of the brainwashing.
One thing about it that you guys have not (yet) had, is the introduction of new gender varieties for traditional occupations. It is hard to do in english though hmm, how do I simulate it?
You are familiar with the 3 different grammatical types of genus for words in Europe yes? It's DER Stuhl (the chair) - male grammatical genus, although it obviously has nothing to do with being male in a physical or biological sense, its a freakin object. It's DIE LIEBE (meaning 'the love') -female grammatical genus, and it's DAS HAUS (meaning 'the house') - neutral grammatical article. As there are three types of "the" there are according endings for those words that always follow to be gramatically correct.
In German we have designations for occupations that are by default going by the male grammatical article DER. This has grown and evolved for thousands of years and always included women as much as men.
It's like when Americans use "man" to refer to mankind - "the spirit of man" includes all human beings.
Now feminists and PC people are spreading the virus that this is somehow sexist and that we have to include both grammatical forms all the time to not exclude anyone on the biological level (because they blindly conflate the two levels).
So it would be "the spirit of man/woman" in any official announcement.
Firefighter, Baker, Doctor - "should all have an additional word that includes women doing those jobs!" If I were to simulate that it would sound something like - Firefighter-ine, Baker-ine, Doctor-ine. Or on a more basic level: You can no longer say policeman because it is somehow sexist against women deciding to join the police. So you always have to say "policeman/policewoman". And so on.
the result is that most public writings and political BS texts now come with both forms in tandem to not offend anyone and the texts are twice the length and totally stupid, and often gramatically false, because of this mindfuck.
It's like:
"The firefighter/firefighterine should be aware that his/her physical integrity is essential in accomplishing his/her task when he/she does engages in his/her work on a daily basis despite the preference the he/she might have for his/her being a hero in light of danger. Every firefighter/firefighterine will be honored for his/her contribution so that he/she retains a positive outlook but should be aware that his/her health is essential to further continue his/her function as firefighter/firefighterine..."
It's insane, especially because we have multiple words in two grammatical forms and they all have to be included in this, not only "he" and "his" so our texts would be even longer.
Sorry it's early for me ahahah. you're a smart man, you probably get the point or have similar examples over there. It's a worldwide program of divide and conquer.
Haha yeah that would be a bit tedious. We have a bit of that in English too but there are very few gendered nouns left in the language (it did have them at one point though). Things like waiter and waitress or steward and stewardess are being replaced with server and attendant. We don't have to worry about changing the articles though because the words are treated the same grammatically and they don't need to declined.
Very true. That seems to be way that it is going everywhere.
Right! -ess is the related ending. steward-ess. same thing.
Imagine this for every occupation and PC people trying to make it mandatory to always name both in any text. It's insane.
Everywhere dude ;)