Wednesday, September 10, 2014
"Relatable"
I would have to disagree with Rebecca Mead. I do not think that the word is a problem because as generations grow people tend to use them in their own way. The word has the same meaning wether you chose to add your own definition by all means feel free but the definition to "relatable" has the same meaning as it did before. The word "relatable" means something you can relate too not something that is exactly the same, it's just something you can see because it's happen to you. Each generation uses their word in the way they have been taught to use it. Being of Mexican decent we tend to tell people that are fully Mexican by the word "nopal" (cactus) on their forehead. Not by necessarily having a cactus stuck to your forehead but because they look really Mexican. We tend to relate the word "nopal" as the symbol of Mexican's because it is proudly symbolized in our Mexican flag. Like I said everyone changes words however they see it best fits. This word is not problematic, I don't see why it honestly would be. We have to understand that people see everything differently from us, no one thinks exactly the same as us. In my opinion this word is not a problem once more, i just think that people need to stick with the real definition and there won't be no more confusion, of course they won't listen to me on this but if we kept the words originally with what they meant understanding stuff would be so much better and more clear.
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I disagree that words need to keep their same meaning. If words did not change then no new ideas could never be expressed. Every time words are put together in a sentence, the values in that sentence are embedded in every one of those words. For example, whenever George W. Bush gave his speech War on Terror speech after 9/11, those words held a much higher significance. Before that the term War on Terror was seldom ever used and the meaning of "terror" in the US was moreover related to horror films than it was terrorists. Also new words, such as computer and telephone, have to be created with new creations. But if language was static then it would not give room for new ideas to be made, nor received.
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