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All you need to know is Trump and his "alternative facts" crew are not semantically correct. So Ms Ocasio-Cortez is going down a slippery slope when she makes fun of being semantically correct.
I'm loving how the Trumpees are all shook up over the new crop of Democrats coming into office, most of them very young and a lot of them women. We never mention them, but the Right can't stop obsessing over them and trying to find every little flaw they can dig up.
It is so nice to see some younger blood coming into politics, I am so tired of seeing only old, white faces (that never smile) any time they are on TV. Trump has to be going bonkers !!
I'm loving how the Trumpees are all shook up over the new crop of Democrats coming into office, most of them very young and a lot of them women. We never mention them, but the Right can't stop obsessing over them and trying to find every little flaw they can dig up.
It is so nice to see some younger blood coming into politics, I am so tired of seeing only old, white faces (that never smile) any time they are on TV. Trump has to be going bonkers !!
Perhaps you can articulate, or otherwise interpret, what exactly "semantically correct" means.
I'm loving how the Trumpees are all shook up over the new crop of Democrats coming into office, most of them very young and a lot of them women. We never mention them, but the Right can't stop obsessing over them and trying to find every little flaw they can dig up.
It is so nice to see some younger blood coming into politics, I am so tired of seeing only old, white faces (that never smile) any time they are on TV. Trump has to be going bonkers !!
I have to wonder what this "we" is that you, a 73-year-old white guy, think you're a part of.
Perhaps you can articulate, or otherwise interpret, what exactly "semantically correct" means.
Just in case it's honest ignorance and not just whinery that a young lady used a difficult word: When studying language, semantics is concerned with meaning, as opposed to syntax, concerned with form and structure. An example: "I could care less" is syntactically correct, but is most often used to convey the exact opposite meaning, and that would make it semantically incorrect. (The semantically coorect sentence would of course be "I could not care less.")
Pedants who like to point that sort of thing out, when they full well understood what the meaning was, are often said to "quibble over semantics".
If this is the first time you encounter the term, well - then you learned something. Glad to be of help.
I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.
I think Ms. OC's use of "semantically correct" here is semantically correct. The problem is with the actual thought she is expressing, that getting the facts right doesn't matter much and being on side of some subjectively decided "good" is what counts.
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