Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Writing Emotions

 [personal profile] kaz  has an interesting post about writing emotions as expressions and body language, while being autistic and not perceiving those the same way neurotypical people do.
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  • 4 comments
sagaciouslu

sagaciouslu

September 19 2013, 14:15:10 UTC 7 years ago

Hmm. Neurotypical. I like...
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

September 19 2013, 17:23:23 UTC 7 years ago

Glad I could help. The counterpoint is neurovariant, which is most often used for the autistic spectrum, but is also useful for a wide range of other mindtypes outside the majority one.
sagaciouslu

Re: Yes...

sagaciouslu

September 25 2013, 15:48:15 UTC 7 years ago

On an oblique and somewhat vaguely related note...

When describing things like race, gender, religion, etc., there seem to be three broad/rough categories of words. But I can only think of a descriptor for one of them, have no descriptor for the middle set, and the positive set seems ill served by calling those words PC.

To wit:

Pejorative set: (in the case of a Jewish person) kike

Middle set: these are words/phrases that seem neutral, but are used by people who are missing the mark, but not through lack of trying - e.g. referring to a non-white person as 'coloured', or a person of African descent as a 'negro'.

PC set: African-American, Chinese-Canadian, etc.

My primary curiosity surrounds the middle set of words. The ones used by people, not in any deliberate pejorative or derogatory fashion, but words which, nonetheless, can be extremely offensive in the right (or wrong) context, or when taken to be offensive by someone who is of a mind to be offended.

Thoughts?

ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

September 25 2013, 22:12:29 UTC 7 years ago

I've seen that pattern, yes. There's a tendency for all words associated with a disadvantaged group to become more pejorative over time. So then new words are made up and added to the top of the stack.