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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (4727)12/12/2000 9:21:40 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
When I was in the Navy I had a room mate who insisted that a word meant something that it didn't. I said, "Let's look it up." I opened the dictionary, his definition wasn't there. He pronounced, "I know what it means. I don't care what the dictionary says."

I'd never met an intelligent person who didn't a) want to use a dictionary and b) accept it's meaning. I could understand if they wanted to consult another dictionary because words meanings change over time or they take on new meanings, but to arbitrarily reassign words new meanings only undermines the function of them. This hubris comes from people that haven't had the socialization experiences of education or, if they did, the lessons didn't stick. If we can't agree upon what words mean, then we have guaranteed that communication will be impossible.

Cults and subcultures use this practice to ensure their separate existence. Drug, hippy, black and probably all subcultures do this to some extent. The greater the extent, the more marginalized the group.
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