I want to gush excessively about your use of definitions here! Because, yes. (I'm sick, witness my articulacy or lack thereof.) It's such a shame that the shorthand of 'the cult of nice' and 'the cult of mean' has become so catchy, and how the argument - involving just enough commentators taking them at their most pejorative meaning - has become exhaustingly circular. It was good to be reminded of other, perhaps more pertinent words and made to consider them.
Good to hear you enjoyed my rambling! I'm a big fan of evolving language and meaning, but, really, a lot of these debates just strike me as sloppy. And I'm also a big fan of dictionaries. *grins*
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Here via metafandom
Date: 2006-02-03 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: Here via metafandom
Date: 2006-02-03 07:11 pm (UTC)