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Dictionaries and grammar "rules" don't have the final word on language — and believing they do can harm more than help, especially for the trans community. Sociolinguist Archie Crowley deconstructs three common myths around language, demonstrating how it's a fluid system that naturally evolves in the direction of inclusion.
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Language evolves. That much is true. But language evolves by consent, not by force or dictat. When a minority of people demand changes in language, and want to enforce those changes, the result will inevitably be resistance.
@Hannes W. All those variations are used. Although “LGBTQAI+” is a far less common one than “LGBTQIA+”, at least in my experience and also to assume because Wikipedia includes the latter, but not the former (which makes me wonder if the second one making the same comment just straight-up copied the first of them).
@Lane Atkinson it really is amazing how such a stupid comment got that many likes
@Lane Atkinson straw man fallacy at its finest. Stop it.
@Brice Dutertre Ok but where is your understanding and respect to people who want to keep the current way of speaking?
@Xyzaxy I’m gay and I’m fine with LGBT+ .
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear, is fear of the unknown.” *H.P Lovecraft*
Now quote what Lovecraft said about black people.
Noone cares
@Charles Dickens oh no, his cat
@Charles Dickens lol
I’ve just been refreshing this video to see if the dislikes surpasses likes
@Lane Atkinson this person clearly doesn’t have one
@waldo 865 *MISSION ACOPLISHED*
@Hero Bison ironic
@Sanaz Lol ironic
@Lane Atkinson ironic
Yikes… Comments have started being deleted
What did you expect? It goes against the fascist movement of today.
@Abbas Timmy Do you even know what fascism is?
Only if you use restricted words. Post against Putin in Russia and you will know the difference between state and private restrictions.
The truth always is. We will never be silenced though ✊
@24 SadSongs you seriously gotta stop watching contra and all of its copies
Was 100% sure this was a Rick Roll
A 13 min video about “i got low self esteem and i’m going to change a entier language in order to be able to feel better “
even if the word alredy exist in my language…
Haha yeah
learn how to spell entire right before you start making a borderline transphobic comment
@Adelaide Lane-Cooper “Phobic” has been watered down so much by easily offended individuals to the point it has no meaning…
What if someone would demand to be called “your highness” or let’s say “my master”? Should that also be universally followed?
Man , that’s smart
If it was an actual sincere identity, people would already be asking for it.
@24 SadSongs So it means that it can be made a sincere identity right?
@24 SadSongs they have. There was a whole controversy about it cause some college student put that as their pronouns
@Discocheese After searching it up, the first article that showed up was “Students were told to select gender pronouns. One chose ‘His Majesty’ to protest ‘absurdity.’” That doesn’t seem like a sincere gender identity.
Notice that this topic very much centers around language and linguistics. If you can change how people use language, you can change how they think, and therefore behave, both at the individual level and the societal level. And thanks to the power of the internet, you can make these changes exponentially faster and more broadly. It’s subtle, but once you see this linguistic strategy, you start to see it everywhere. It’s not restricted to just one issue or political persuasion. Creating lasting change is harder though. See the fickleness of meme culture. What will stick, and what will fade away? Time will tell.
Yes using certain language to tactically communicate your view is a thing, but the view came first. It is crucial to create lasting change because as new concepts develop or new norms form they need words to describe them in order to be in the societal mind. That can be good or bad depending on the what view is changing, but to me looking at what role gender is playing and should play in society is a place where some outdated views and terminology can make way.
“If you can change how people use language, you can change how they think, and therefore behave, both at the individual level and the societal level”
This, this actually can be very dangerous.
Only narcissistic sociopaths think they should change how people think or change the language they use.
@TruthJusticePeace you couldn’t have described it better.
@Wolframio Explain
Channel dedicated to drawing..
“Drawing is my passion, not a gift”
We got this thing in german speaking countries called “gendern”.
Like in many other countries, german uses the generic maskulin (just using the grammatical-male version of a word to address all sexes). e.g. “most actors can’t afford to live off their profession”.
For the feminist movement however, this is a big problem because it doesn’t specifically highlight that also women are meant by that term. They demand (with great success) to “gender” all these words. e.g. “most actorEsses can’t afford to live off their profession”
Does it make sense to you to obscure language like that in this case?
Same with any other language that uses gender in nouns. Same in Latin America with Spanish. Most of the time, like in German, it is the standard to address a group of male and female people with the masculine. In Spanish, they have modified words like Todos to TodEs instead. It is a social cancer.
Ich halte es für eine Verunstaltung der deutschen Sprache da ohnehin beide Geschlechter gemeint sind.
Absolut unnötig meiner Meinung nach. Ich denke wir haben wichtigere Probleme als diesen “Gender” Schmus. Ich bin sehr wohl für Gleichberechtigung, aber deshalb eine ganze Sprache zu ändern halte ich für etwas übertrieben.
Gott, es ist so schwer diese extra Silbe zu sagen, kann nur zustimmen, denn letztendlich kostet es über mein Leben hinweg mich sicherlich ne Stunde Lebenszeit, schrecklich. Erstreckt wenn manche sich dadurch erfreuen und durch weniger Hass viel mehr im Ausgleich dazugekommen… Diese Stunde ist MEIN
@Abbas Timmy Thanks a lot for your input, very much appreciated!
@blaxxun75 “Verunstaltung” ist eine persönliche Wertung, die es in der Linguistik so nicht gibt.
Davon abgesehen, gibt es unzählige soziologische Studien, die belegen, dass es eben nicht egal ist. So z. B. gab es Kampagnen gegen Rasen auf der Autobahn. Hier wurde immer das generische Maskulinum von Rasern und Fahrern genutzt. Eine Gruppe, die damit nicht erreicht wurde, waren Frauen. Und die die selbst rasend unterwegs waren fühlten sich nicht angesprochen. Das ist sehr relevant.
We shouldn’t change our understanding of reality to celebrate your unique personality.
These people are everything but unique.
The only unique in them is how they are all uniquely trying to be different.
Their sole existince is based on “me me me”.
This is what you get when you have a culture, like in america, where narcissism is not frowned upon but instead “celebrated”.
Narcissism breeds mental illness.
You don’t decide or determine what “reality” is.
And pronouns aren’t a “unique personality trait”,they’re an essential part of one’s being.
Everything is changing dude, get over it
@Amir Moualla Treat people with courtesy sure, but respect people? What good is respect if you just respect everybody? You’re devaluing the currency of respect
this isnt about one person’s ted talk. trans people dont defy reality by existing. nor do they defy science. theyve existed for a very long time, longer than the English language rules you call “reality” have been the norm.
this comment section did not pass the vibe check.
Archie: People get really upset when you challenge their beliefs about language.
People in the comments: I’m really upset because you challenged my beliefs about language!
Thou shan’t touch mine language! Reason hath to be preserved! *clutches pearls*
Pfft. White people problems.
@Sanaz Lol ironic
@Luís Frederico Dornelas Conti gotta love the contrapoints npcs
I was going to write something profound ….but …you know ….I don’t feel like it now
Let’s be nice and give them a language they want
Yay
What language
So insightful!
This is ridiculous. God never makes mistakes. If gender didnt matter why arent we all 1 gender and can just duplicate ourselves when we want a kid?
God doesn’t make mistakes? Have you seen yourself??
God doesn’t make mistakes? Have you seen yourself??
It’s not about mistakes, our Lord is wise and loving. Sometimes God gives us a spark that makes us different. We the proudest creation of our lord were blessed with personality and individuality.
Language is always in constant change, there are still no words today for what will come tomorrow. We should be proud of the diversity and wonder that English has to offer. So let’s walk with an open mind and a heart, everyone deserves the right words to express themselves.
Isang malaking kabobohan na naman ang nakalap kong video ngayong umaga.