• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Words that people misuse are still meaningful when the reader and writer both understand the same meaning. I expect you understand OP perfectly well.

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      2 hours ago

      Words that people misuse for the sake of propaganda are intentionally misleading, regardless of how any in-group understands it.

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        2 hours ago

        Your use of the word “intentionally” is quite confusing to me. Intentionally misleading on whose part? The word’s part, or the in-group’s?