"The solution" is STOP USING THAT WORD THE WAY YOU ARE USING IT.
That's the second step. The first step would've been to just bloody well APOLOGIZE.
My god, the twists of non-logic in Bear's response make it sound almost like she finds the very act of writing, "I'm sorry," downright painful. That kind of evasion is just capped off by the rest of the non-logical anti-logic she presents. (And since when is "massacre" a word so far into our past that it's been wiped clean? This is not a word I ever want to have become 'banal' -- it's a word that represents a terrible thing, and it's right that the word itself should take on some of the horror we ascribe to the thing it describes.)
Since I'm already commenting (via manifesta, btw), here's to megwrites for an excellent reply. Also, I'm thinking maybe it's time to make a handful of "What has Elizabeth Bear said this time?" icons, since clearly we can get at least semi-regular use out of them.
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Date: 2010-08-06 01:45 am (UTC)That's the second step. The first step would've been to just bloody well APOLOGIZE.
My god, the twists of non-logic in Bear's response make it sound almost like she finds the very act of writing, "I'm sorry," downright painful. That kind of evasion is just capped off by the rest of the non-logical anti-logic she presents. (And since when is "massacre" a word so far into our past that it's been wiped clean? This is not a word I ever want to have become 'banal' -- it's a word that represents a terrible thing, and it's right that the word itself should take on some of the horror we ascribe to the thing it describes.)
Since I'm already commenting (via