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On the Changing of the Dictionaries

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