What semantic thing annoys you? (1 Viewer)

[snsd2beg]

I get pissed about semantics a lot (because I'm a loser), but one that really annoys me is the whole "biblically-accurate angels" thing. There are several types of angels. The one people usually use with term are called thrones. They are ONE type. The humanoid ones are ALSO biblically-accurate, not just the thrones. Call them by their name. I'm not even Christian and I know this...​

 

[seungfloral]

I got annoyed just by the word semantics

 

[mysteric]

AI being used as a catch all buzzword, be it positive or negative

 

[snsd2beg]

I got annoyed just by the word semantics

Yeah... sorry lol

 

[seungfloral]

Yeah... sorry lol

Jk dw

 

[Ahsoka]

When people say stuff like “it’s all natural” or “it’s bad because it has chemicals”. I get they want to say all natural is default good (it’s not) and that chemicals doesn’t mean chemicals, it means certain chemicals not commonly encountered in the form used in the product in nature (though a lot of “chemicals” are found in that form) and only meaning ones that are known to have certain bad effects on humans, in particular associated with harsher things like bleach, and that’s what chemicals means. But that’s a whole lot of qualifiers isn’t it? Why are we using the word chemicals to describe a very very very specific bad form of chemicals? It just feels confusing and inconvenient to me. At this point, I could find people who are into all natural stuff and whatnot (the ones who don’t have an understanding of what it means) and tell them I found a form of sustenance marketed as healthy that is jam packed with chemicals, and that they shouldn’t eat it ever because people have died from eating it. And then they’d boycott oranges because of the health dangers or chemicals. Those are buzz words, but because they have actual meanings, people can twist things to get others on their side so so easily

 

[snsd2beg]

When people say stuff like “it’s all natural” or “it’s bad because it has chemicals”. I get they want to say all natural is default good (it’s not) and that chemicals doesn’t mean chemicals, it means certain chemicals not commonly encountered in the form used in the product in nature (though a lot of “chemicals” are found in that form) and only meaning ones that are known to have certain bad effects on humans, in particular associated with harsher things like bleach, and that’s what chemicals means. But that’s a whole lot of qualifiers isn’t it? Why are we using the word chemicals to describe a very very very specific bad form of chemicals? It just feels confusing and inconvenient to me. At this point, I could find people who are into all natural stuff and whatnot (the ones who don’t have an understanding of what it means) and tell them I found a form of sustenance marketed as healthy that is jam packed with chemicals, and that they shouldn’t eat it ever because people have died from eating it. And then they’d boycott oranges because of the health dangers or chemicals. Those are buzz words, but because they have actual meanings, people can twist things to get others on their side so so easily

So confusing...
There's a general issue of people taking terms and making them buzz words that no longer accurately reflect their original meaning, especially with medical terms. I won't get into it bc it'll sound like me being too sensitive or whatever but it drives me up the wall

 

[Ahsoka]

So confusing...
There's a general issue of people taking terms and making them buzz words that no longer accurately reflect their original meaning, especially with medical terms. I won't get into it bc it'll sound like me being too sensitive or whatever but it drives me up the wall

At minimum, it’s pretty annoying. If we want to be nice

 

[Harmony_Starz]

I got annoyed just by the word semantics

me too cuz I dont know the word nor understand it

 

[seungfloral]

me too cuz I dont know the word nor understand it

the part of linguistics that deals with meaning
just ggled it