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On the Changing of the Dictionaries

By Filings on Wed, 01/04/23
Society & Culture
Language
Dictionaries
American Culture
Individualism

“…in our day everything is political and that all of society’s structures and institutions are being made subservient to political ends. …Second, it affirms that in our society self-definition is considered unassailable so that a person’s individual defining of a word must reign over a dictionary’s.” - Challies

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