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by bradleyjg 3144 days ago
I'm objecting to your bastardization of the English language. "Virtue signaling" doesn't mean "something I don't like". It has a specific meaning that comes out of behavioral economics. It's a quite interesting concept actually. Unfortunately it is the process of being taken by people like you and turned into a contentless insult to fling at people. That's a destruction of the richness of our linguistic commons and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing so.

The down-voters and rightness or wrongness of their actions are a separate matter.
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bduerst 3144 days ago
"Virtue Signalling" has been co-opted by reactionaries to be the new "SJW" snarl word.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior#.22Virt...

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_Codemonkeyism 3144 days ago
"That's a destruction of the richness of our linguistic commons and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing so."

Never read a more US-centric comment on HN towards people who are a.) not native speakers b.) don't have the vocubulary which seems to be necessary to leave comments on HN. But I assume these are the times.

Luckily the most common language in 50y will be Chinese.

Hopefully they are more polite than this.

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lostlogin 3144 days ago
> Luckily the most common language in 50y will be Chinese

China has multiple languages and ‘Chinese’ isn’t really a single language. Mandarin is already the most spoken language by a large margin, and even that has several dialects.

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_Codemonkeyism 3144 days ago
Luckily we have you to point out the obvious.
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bradleyjg 3144 days ago
> Never read a more US-centric comment on HN

In case you aren’t aware, English is spoken in many places other than the United States. Most obviously in England.

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_Codemonkeyism 3143 days ago
In case you are not aware, British people on HN are way outnumbered by commentators from the US, so HN is US centric and by no way UK centric.

Also concerning the nation-centric point of view, people from the UK are way less focused on their country and know other people outside their country exist.

If you are from the UK, take my apologies.

If your from the US, case in point.

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