ps - and more words o' the week

[keryx]

And I just bet there's an editor at the CDC who said "Um, people? Preconception? I know we're the medical establishment and can make shit up whenever we want and all, but but - that word already has a meaning." and eventually just got to "Fine, fuck it. I wash my hands of you people!"

Cause I mean, really, doesn't seeing preconception and preconceived over and over like that just freak you out?

Or am I alone in my dogged insistence on proper denotation?

PS - words of the week theme this week: words to insult a debate opponent's intelligence. Discuss! Oh, and you can't accuse said opponent of being emotional [or histrionic, hysterical, etc.], as those are not valid attacks on their arguments (per my rules).

Comments

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Save the preconceived babies!

[divinerose.livejournal.com]

from http://www.geocities.com/preconceivedbabies/hypocrisy.html

Think about it--how many of the pro-life women of childbearing age are conscientiously keeping themselves pregnant at all times, ensuring that every preconceived child will have a chance at life?

To spare themselves the "inconvenience" of assuming the sacred God-given duty of co-creating new life, and to avoid alienating donors, they have arbitrarily defined life as beginning at conception. Yet the difference between a fertilized pre-conceived baby and an unfertilized one is negligible.

Once again, selfishness and greed triumph. Who will speak for the voiceless?

I really want to punch this person in the face.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I recall there being debate on the lj-feminist community about whether that was intentionally humorous or merely incidentally so. I side with intentionally.

[divinerose.livejournal.com]

haha...yea, that was the first thing I came to and so I posted...after looking around I agree that it seems to be intentionally humorous. oops.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Hey, do you know if we ever figured out for sure that the site was a joke?

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to prove that it is one, but it seems like one to me.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

dis·sem·ble Pronunciation Key (d-smbl)
v. dis·sem·bled, dis·sem·bling, dis·sem·bles
v. tr.

1. To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. See Synonyms at disguise.
2. To make a false show of; feign.


mostly because if you accuse some one of "dissembling" it sounds like dis-assembling which makes it seem like you're trying to tear the other person apart. intellectually.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I just blogged exactly this point at Body Impolitic

[orkid.livejournal.com]

obtuse (Lacking quickness of perception or intellect. Not sharp or acute; blunt.)

in a sentence:
The person who coined that new usage of preconception is obtuse.