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With the US thrust into the de-facto "centre of the Anglo-sphere" (note: I am not American, as astute readers might deduce from preceding spelling), many terms are in need of an overhaul. It's particularly amusing how news of the "West" comes from the East and the "East" is accessed by flying West.

Words are hard (and currently under a lot of scrutiny). Has anyone tried turning the language off and on again?

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> Has anyone tried turning the language off and on again?

Wouldn't do any good. The English language has a venerable codebase, a high turnover development team and lava flow development all over the place.

Modernization attempts haven't gone well, but more PRs come in by the day.

At the end of the day, English is less a language in the sense of other languages and more a pluggable framework an empire developed for adopting the vocabulary of other peoples and stuffing them into a loose sort of syntax together.

I often think of "Worse is better" when teaching my kids reading and writing. In fact, Internet memes in the past 2 decades have dialed this up to 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Words like this always end up being wrong if they're used long enough, but are still useful and everyone gets what you mean, so they're fine, since that's the whole point. See also: "3rd world".

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