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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I don't "get on campaigns" about words at all. I'm making a conversational argument on a message board that I read regularly because I have a little time to kill and am attempting to procrastinate on doing real work. Trust me, I don't give the word as much as a single thought when it isn't being brought up here.
And it struck me the exact "mood" that rubs me the wrong way about trying to push the word-- it is like the annoying little kid that nobody likes following you around and asking to be your friend. Sure, you might become friends if it developed naturally, but consciously trying to force it simply by showing up all the time and hoping people will eventually stop ignoring you comes off as really clingy, needy, and pathetic-- and excessive exposure to "pathetic" quickly pushes one over the line from sympathy to contempt.
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ah, well i didn't realise that you were not in fact at all invested emotionally in the discussion, your choice of words makes it seem on the contrary that you feel very strongly about this.
be that as it may, i mention campaign and antagonism and aggression because whenever the word has been used in any discussion here it has invariably been met with a veritable cacophony of protests from a small group of people who clearly does feel very strongly about it, to the point of actually completely derailing whatever thread it appeared in and preventing any discussion about the actual topic (which was not, in fact, the use of the word "liseuse").