• morrowind
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    6 months ago

    You can’t entirely remove a word from it’s main meaning and there’s a reason all popular swear words are negative or taboo things, fuck, damn, hell etc

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        6 months ago

        I didn’t say the main meaning can’t change, just that you can’t remove it from said meaning by using it in a different context

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            6 months ago

            The main meaning of a word can change, but at any given time, you can’t use the word in a different context, and expect how people receive it to be completely divorced from its current main meaning

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              6 months ago

              This is true, which is why context matters. Like if you love a song so much and say, “That’s sick!”, people might think you mean “ill” and assume something negative.