In my pursuit of ridding my life of the unnecessary, it would be foolish for me to ignore the non-corporeal unnecessary things; words, phrases and ideas that, like their physical brethren, seem useful but actually cost us dearly, this time in both misunderstanding and the unwitting perpetuation of ideas we might not agree with.
I tend to agree with linguist Ranko Bugarski, that what’s needed is
…judicious use of normal language, allowing for fine-grained selection and discrimination, for urbanity and finesse…
Judged by those merits, the following words and phrases are unnecessary and should avoided at all costs.
Community
There may be no more semantically promiscuous word than community, a vague and meaningless political word that can mean several things at once, or nothing at all. It can conjure things that don’t exist, and deny the existence of those that do. It can be used in celebration, or in passive-aggressive attack. Its use in public language is almost always evidence of a political strategy at work.
Reform
This is yet another hollow political word for scoundrels to fill up with the projected wishes of whatever micro-constituency, or community, they are speaking to.
Pro-life / Pro-Choice
Pro-life supposes that a fetus is a person and that those who are anti-pro-life are against life,while Pro-choice distances its speakers from actually advocating abortion, while casting “adversaries as ‘anti-choice’; as interfering, patriarchal dictators.”
Tax Relief / Tax Burden
Tax relief and tax burden covertly argue that lowered taxes automatically relieve and unburden everybody, forestalling, by their injection in any conversation, any discussion of the moral and ethical basis of taxation.
I am certain that there are, like other unnecessary things, an almost endless litany of unnecessary words. I will add more as I happen across them.
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