One of the things that sometimes puzzles or frustrates me is the way that words change their meanings, sometimes so rapidly that the meanings soon conflict, and the words become "skunked" -- they can no longer be used for meaningful communication because you don't know what the person who has just used the word to you means by it ( Read more... )

Someone I follow on Twitter recently posted:
If your argument against something is that it is "woke" I will assume that you are so ignorant you cannot create a cogent argument and I shall feel no obligation to respond to your "claim".
I first heard people using "woke" as an adjective or a noun about 6-7 years ago, and so I looked it up. It was US ( Read more... )