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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
what makes a word "stupid" ? what makes it "inferior" ? "stupid" seems to me to be so arbitrary as to be indefensible, and as for inferior
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Okay, I'll concede that point-- there is nothing inherent to the word that makes it stupid, inferior, and ugly. It is simply my personal opinion that the word is stupid, inferior, and ugly-- but also, I would think, the personal opinion of many others that oppose the word-- and not the simplistic straw man you use in this thread (and earlier ones on the subject) that people are xenophobes trying to keep English "pure" from foreign languages.
But my main objection isn't even the word itself-- it is the silly, futile, artificial pushing (or "blooming"-- see, I got that in again) of the word.