re: #146 Obdicut

Really? You don’t think that having so many words associated with comprehension be linked to senses that some people literally don’t have makes them feel like they’re outsiders?

Why do you feel that?

Ah. So the word ‘see’ meaning ‘understand’, isn’t at all negative towards someone who can’t see anything.

Really? I know absolutely it pisses off a blind friend of mine, though he shows it hilariously.

Clueless friend: “See, what I feel—”

Blind friend: “No, no I don’t.”

But the reason he’s speaking up is because the word see actually does bug him.

What I’m saying is that if you decide there’s a certain point where you need to draw the line, what is your basis for telling other people where they have drawn the line is incorrect? What is your rationale for where you draw the line?

All right, I’ll do what I really wanted to do originally and concede that ‘see’ should be avoided in that usage. We have a language based on privilege. I, like all of us, have a long way to go in weeding it out.