Posted on 11/29/2021 2:33:39 PM PST by Kaslin
Think that’s annoying? Stand by for Time Magazine’s “Life Form of the Year” award.
I would suggest, if they ever consider two-word phrases, that “moving goalposts” would resonate with just about everyone.
It’s not really a word if its definition can be changed for political purposes.
It’s a political tool. Not a word.
Per Merriam Webster:
” a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)”
Did Fauci and Brandon get the nomination for Nobel Prize yet? I wonder if kamel-toe will get a ticket on next space flight
I was Hoping;
“DOMINION”,,,
.
Seems Spell check is
Ignoring DOMINION too.
Per my old Webster’s dictionary on my bookshelf:
vaccine: a preparation consisting of the living viruses of cowpox, used in vaccination; a preparation of microorganisms, either dead, or virulent and living or attenuated and living, that are administered so a to produce (or increase) immunity to a particular disease
Control the language and you control a lot more than that.
I dated a girl named Vaccine.
Long red nails. black leather skirt. Leopard skin boots.
Sold real-estate.
I looked up “bamboozle” in the dictionary and it said, “to deceive in the manner of Merriam-Webster.”
Ummm, that’s not really what she was selling...
Define real estate.
LOL
That’s why I call it a fauxinne every chance I get!
How about “hysteria”? “Absurd”? “Insanity”?
mask would have been a better choice, being attached at the hip to lockdown and chinese theft of PPE
What were they thinking.
Mandates would have been much better.
grab
“Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined.”
In other words they know it is grammatically wrong but they decided to endorse a dumbed down variation because ungrammatical people used it that way for so long, it’s become practically the norm.
How sad for our language and our culture--what's left of it.
The word “vaccine” wasn’t birthed in a day, or due to a single pandemic. The first known use stretches back to 1882 but references pop up earlier related to fluid from cowpox pustules used in inoculations, Sokolowski said. It was borrowed from the New Latin “vaccina,” which goes back to Latin’s feminine “vaccinus,” meaning “of or from a cow.” The Latin for cow is “vacca,” a word that might be akin to the Sanskrit “vasa,” according to Merriam-Webster.
Before this term was coined in the 1790's, it was commonly called "inoculation." At the time of Valley Forge, General George Washington was deeply divided on whether to inoculate his troops (who were dying of smallpox in droves) with the still experimental treatment. At that time, they were still using full strength smallpox virus which more often than not would kill the recipient (he eventually allowed it).
It wasn't until the eventual use of cowpox instead that it became safer to use.
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