as small as a world and as large as alone

3:22am June 25, 2015

dendriforming:

I don’t think people I disagree with about language are automatically wrong about other things. They’re often right on about things that are also really important to the people language policing hurts most.  I seriously question the priorities of people who make language their main thing, but usually even those people are right on some things.

Both groups are big enough that if we shut people out I’m afraid we’ll end up losing a lot. And there are a lot of overlapping priorities. But there’s still a fundamental underlying problem that both groups view the other as a threat, and I don’t know how to resolve that.

I really wish I did.

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