No rude comments about my shadow please
Lmao 🤣
Great photos of the trees and shadows! Looks like an awesome day for a walk.
The term "idiot" used to have a specific meaning in psychology as did "moron" and a few other words that seem out of place today when they are used in certain serious contexts. I find it interesting how words change over time though. Scientific words that become adopted by the public tend to be over generalized and they essentially lose their intended meaning or become synonymous with something else. The term "retard" and "retarded" are examples of that as well. Those words used to have specific scientific meanings but now are just very derogatory terms and its best to just avoid using them. Language - pretty interesting in my opinion.
And then people create new terms to overcome these issues but sometimes they are just too ridiculous. I remember I was booking a flight on the internet some years ago, and in the seat reservation section there was this term "horizontally challenged".
It was something to do with choosing seats or buying an extra seat if you're on the large side aka fat, which we not supposed to call people nowadays either !!!!
Yeah it's true. It does seem absurd at times. New words are created to replace the old misused words and then other new words are created to replace those, and eventually you can't even figure out what message is being conveyed anymore because it's so far removed lol. I'm definitly for inclusivity and all that but sometimes it can be very challenging. As a rule I just try to avoid any descriptive word for other people. It's too confusing for me anymore. There have been so many times where I have literally thought to myself "can I say that word anymore?" and then I spend like 5 minutes in my head thinking "well the man was from Mexico, so why couldn't I say that a Mexican gave me the tequila?" 🤔
That's just a made up example but there have been actual cases where I thought something similar to that. My social work program ruined me for speaking. Now i overthink everything.