Since the 1600's, many Latin/Greek words have been deliberately tainted semantically by the academic institutions to disconnect them from their original sense and meaning. When they saw that literacy rates would approach critical mass, they prompted a scorched earth maneuver on what could be considered the "Latin/Greek corpus of dangerous words". The manner of semantic tainting is not arbitrary, for it becomes clear that there is a pattern of duplicitous inversion to their magic which entails giving one lexical (explained) gloss to us, while they are the keepers of "the true/sourced Logos" (τὸν λόγον ἔτυμος).
Some meanings were so "illegal" for us to utter/think that they felt the need to reassociate such words with something pathologically shameful, disease-like, or embarrassing. The medical and anthropological sciences contain a disproportionate amount of these "inverted" words consider the words:
>Virus [vir] (nominative for "adult male human + energy", possibly applicable only to gentiles), related to "virile", "virgin", "viral", "virtue", "Vril". Possibly connected to the infectious nature of such energy >Anus [an] (nominative for "ring", but there is also a sense of "swelling", "growing". Translates to 'kírkos' in Ancient Greek, which gives us the words 'church' and 'circle'). possibly related to the Germanic deity "Anzus", which bears the sense of "that which supports over time", "that which holds something together" >Penis [pen] (adjective or genitive related to being under custody of someone else, at someone's disposal), related to "penal", "punish", "penalty" >Scrotum [scer(o)] (noun, accusative for "I reduce/shave off/cut short"), related to "shear", possibly "zero"
Their magic is way older though, and takes many forms, such as through the use of synonyms ("I fuse/connect names/nouns") and synthetic semiology. Consider the Slavic word for "German": >'Niemiecki' [*němъ ("muted/mumbler/mimic") + *-ьcь ("little/small")] Just like the English noun 'German' means both "German" and "something disease-like", the Slavic word for "German" means both "German", and "someone (small) who is acting/mimicking and cannot speak clearly" This duality of stock + negativity invokes unconscious passive-aggressive animosity between the European tribes, which is highly corrosive and exploitable in a non-tribal society. You can probably figure out for yourself what the dual meaning of "Slav" is to the Germanic/Anglo mind.
Interesting thread OP. Shame the NPCs on here don't know what to make of this or how to discuss this.
>You can probably figure out for yourself what the dual meaning of "Slav" is to the Germanic/Anglo mind. From what I know, their enslaved origins are not even a secret. They were enslaved on a mass scale by arabs and then feudal lords, weren't they?
Noah Gray
So OP wanted to tell us that xe just discovered etymology for the first time?
Kayden Hill
I just want to make words powerful again
Kayden Edwards
Wow you sure showed OP. Being smart and curious about new things is embarrassing. What a geek lol. Let's completely misread his (admittedly weak and superfical) analysis on whether there are nefarious mechanisms behind the scenes guiding language and just reduce it to etymology in general.
to be clear about the "German" = "disease" connotation; this is obviously something new that follows the Germ theory of disease, and wouldn't enter the plebeian consciousness until the late 1800's. The former connotation was that of "germanity", "germane" (straight to the point, honest, plain), which was neutral/positive, and the former connotation of that was the Roman "germen", possibly a derogative term indicative of excessive breeding in line with the word "vermen"
Charles Nelson
Bump
Josiah Johnson
So, to be germane and to be frank is actually similar?
That makes me think that it's actually a connotation given to them from the Roman perspective. In other words, simpler (lower class) people have simpler ways of interacting with each other and therefore may be seen as too direct by more complex (higher class) people who are used to their convolutedly complex systems of social interactions. It makes me think of another thread where it was claimed that wolf whistling or hollering at random women you see in the street is actually a positive and normal thing amongst the lower classes because they don't have the money or time to join badminton or other gay clubs to go through complex hoops to "woo" women.
Chase Taylor
No this is the answer: You are describing how words are used for power and talking about how to make them powerful, your thinking is literally inverted, so you are probably mentally ill and posting on a tranny porn site you are likely a troon. Professionals use Greek and Latin to load terms with descriptive meaning. A "nose job" is slang for example that requires more information to understand it, a "rhinoplasty" is the technical term that describes the operation and what it does. So, etymology and ur gay. No coincidence it took a muslim to point that out but explaining that would be useless
i have noticed this issue in russian language, like: пиcaть to write, and пиcять to pee, but some times it is also пи́caть to pee. and they have вpaть to lie, and вpaчeвaть (which is also from вpaть) for to cure or else. vocal tones are made difference while you pronounce this words, while typing had it's issues while you chat or write. btw russian has english word "write" that is used to name "lie" (вpaть), but for "typing" they use пиcaть\пeчaтaть. who knows when the errors and difficulties came from in apes lexicos.
>they have вpaть to lie, and вpaчeвaть (which is also from вpaть) for to cure The placebo effect in practice?
Dylan Morales
A big one that is shifting in recent times is the word "discriminate". Discrimination is now by default an emotionally loaded term, where before it just meant identifying difference. e.g one can discriminate an insect in the grass, I discriminate against adults being taken in as schoolchildren etc but now discrimination is a horrific thing to do. To notice things is now a bad thing. I've not thought about this for a while, anyone have any lexicon magic in action currently?
Jason Nelson
I called it "synthetic semiology" but I'm wondering if there's a specific term for this; "to put many meanings to one word". Maybe someone could help out
Landon Myers
>To notice things is now a bad thing. Specifically, to notice or identify differences is a bad thing. Your post chilled me to the bone.
So how do we fix this? If I start using the word anus for growth people will think I'm literally retarded and would probably get shipped to an insane asylum? I'm just anusing my wealth bro. How do we take the words back?
Adam Hall
As I see it, the words which had their meanings changed centuries ago are lost causes, but we can do something about recent changes, or words that have not completely lost their positive/neutral connotations, like virile and discriminate.
Owen Rogers
Conservative Traditional Imperial Western Colonial "Straight" - shouldn't even exist as a term, it should just be "not a degenerate homosexual". Straight almost comes across as boring.
Tyler Robinson
just take notice and know that you are not mad. In an autonomous tribal setting it would be much easier for the local wisemen to play around with words and semiotics. both new and old meanings would spread to the common folk through poetry, stories, and song
The window for semiotic revolution will come again
Jordan White
To be a conservative these days is to fight to conserve the current globohomo degeneracy. I'll take reactionary over conservative any day m8. While we're on the topic of political terms, "Populism" literally mean to push policies that are extremely popular (and therefore democratic) amongst the populace, and the media kikes are currently memeing "populism" as something which threatens democracy.
Matthew Mitchell
Deserve bimp
Grayson Brooks
not a classic "placebo" by encyclopedy term i guess, more related to a magic: body electric, vibes...
