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"Gaslighting" isn't Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year, darling, you're just confused [1]
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Date: 2022-11-28 16:52:33+00:00
To adhere to its original sense there ought to be some aspect of attempting to drive someone insane to gain an advantage. At least thereby to be distinguished from an ordinary flimflam or confidence trickster. That typed, the graveyard of useful words is filled with time. e.g. to “decimate” used to be a relatively, one-tenth, hence the “deci-”, level of destruction, now it’s utter-and-complete. how often do we see “unique” qualified: “the most unique”, “very unique”, “uniquer”. then there is “literally”, “comprised”, “nominal” … ah well, it’s mostly good that language is allowed to evolve.
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