A symptom of bigotry in which a bigot insists that the spelling, grammar, or pronunciation of other languages, cultures, or subcultures are inferior, or simply wrong.
Some linguistically intolerant Jews and Muslims, such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which most European languages substitute the letter J for the letter Y when transliterating names from ancient texts, such as:
Joel for Yael
Judah for Yehuda
Joshua for Yeheshua
Joseph for Yusuf
Jonah for Yunus
Jesus for Yesus or Yeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa or Yahweh
Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: www.jamaat.net/name/name3.html)
Joel for Yael
Judah for Yehuda
Joshua for Yeheshua
Joseph for Yusuf
Jonah for Yunus
Jesus for Yesus or Yeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa or Yahweh
Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: www.jamaat.net/name/name3.html)
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In the University of Excellence in English Language and Language Arts, Joe was convicted of first-degree linguistic terrorism by the University's faculty and superintendent when he wrote an entire research paper (53 pages to be precise) in which he used the word "then" in every place where he should've used "than" and misspelling every word in the last 25 pages. He was accordingly given a 25-year sentence (instead of a 10 non-decillion one, which the superintendent was very tempted to give) in order for him to learn his lesson and in order to warn others that the English language will be rigorously and strictly preserved at all costs.
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In Nazi Germany, they used Linguistic turd bombs that were at first mild. This strategy was to prepare the population for their secret objectives.
Linguistic Turd Bombs were constantly being dropped into their propaganda Words , so Linguistic Turd bombs like unclean, dirty, soon developed into far more sinister terms such as rats and other dehumanising terms.
This guy is a real Linguistic turd bombing character, always trying to manipulative , to conceal his ultimate goal, when its too late to know where it came from.
Linguistic Turd Bombs were constantly being dropped into their propaganda Words , so Linguistic Turd bombs like unclean, dirty, soon developed into far more sinister terms such as rats and other dehumanising terms.
This guy is a real Linguistic turd bombing character, always trying to manipulative , to conceal his ultimate goal, when its too late to know where it came from.
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Get the Linguistic Prescriptivism mug.The Adnani linguistic theory deals with the definition of words. It is based on the premise that dictionaries should move away from the function of an abridged encyclopedia and start constructing discrete formulas that can be used to decode all words.
One quick example that comes to mind is to define a word by a sequence of three words, the first of which identifies the discrete object and the second two help us locate it in the cognitive map.
Examples:
Boy = Male at youth
Youth = Stage of development
Development = Growing with intention
Intention = Action with deliberation
Music = Sound with intention
Sound = Information with loudness
Information = Clues about reality
The interesting, and even fun part about working on these algorithms is that they are actually more metaphysical and metaphorical than the standard suggestive, encyclopedic methodology.
For example:
Color = Variation invoking emotion
Blue = Color of God
Notice that a color can be any "variation", so a change in speech, or perhaps a musical movement, or even the mood of a given setting.
The most important change that one would see with the implementation of such a system of definition is that meaning would cease to be an aloof idea that everyone should hope to randomly stumble upon and would start to be the social foundation that we all desire it to be.
One quick example that comes to mind is to define a word by a sequence of three words, the first of which identifies the discrete object and the second two help us locate it in the cognitive map.
Examples:
Boy = Male at youth
Youth = Stage of development
Development = Growing with intention
Intention = Action with deliberation
Music = Sound with intention
Sound = Information with loudness
Information = Clues about reality
The interesting, and even fun part about working on these algorithms is that they are actually more metaphysical and metaphorical than the standard suggestive, encyclopedic methodology.
For example:
Color = Variation invoking emotion
Blue = Color of God
Notice that a color can be any "variation", so a change in speech, or perhaps a musical movement, or even the mood of a given setting.
The most important change that one would see with the implementation of such a system of definition is that meaning would cease to be an aloof idea that everyone should hope to randomly stumble upon and would start to be the social foundation that we all desire it to be.
The creator of the Adnani Linguistic Theory believes that a more formulaic method of definition will lead to an increased base of common and useful meaning in the world.
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