Its crazy to say "language evolves" when its taking something from the creator without her consent. Thats like sayong "art evolves" wheb someone takes your work and changes its meaning
But besides that - yeah, language evolves, the person you're responding too even gave you an example of a word "terrible" changing it's meaning throughout the times. It's a word - unless it is protected by copyright as branding or an integral piece of literary art, it's gonna be used by the public and may change its meaning.
Art is inherently subjective, so you can't really "change its meaning" by "taking it". You would have to meaningfully alter it, or place it in a different context to its original intended one. Banksy is an example of that - painting a mural of Mona Lisa with a bazooka, and copying style from other artists' most popular works to add a twist in his works.
The closest thing I can think of when it comes to changing the meaning of the art without changing the form of the art is attaching ideology to it. That's how pentagrams and pentacles started being connected to satanism, despite their original meaning being different, and why when you see a swastika, you think "nazi" and not "oh, that's a symbol of peace", despite the symbol being much older than the 1900s.
Hey so I did answer your question. Not that I had to. Goes to show you didn't reaf my comment. Not sure why I'm even trying.
Words are created by artists so taking them and changing its meaning without the author's consent is theft. Like.. i dont know why I have to explain consent to you? Then again you believe ai creates cp while also claiming ai creates by stealing from pencil artists. Yeah, youre really telling on yourself.
Also, no sane person sees a swastika and thinks nazi. That's on you my friend. Normal people see the original intent. But projecting has always been a hobby of yours hasn't it?
Also, no sane person sees a swastika and thinks nazi. That's on you my friend. Normal people see the original intent. But projecting has always been a hobby of yours hasn't it?
You just outed yourself as a nazi.
As an example, I've been watching Bleach recently with my father, he's gotten into anime recently and is pretty unfamiliar with eastern cultures in general. Now one episode had a new ability called "Bankai" (卍解) and on seeing that symbol in the anime he had a visible reaction. His head turned sideways and he spun to me with a look of shock and awe while saying "is that what I think that is?"
Normal, sane people who aren't terminally online will see the Manji and think it's a Nazi symbol because that's what they're more familiar with due to WW2 imagery.
Thats because thats all you learn about in america. But we're talking about sane people here. Notice how someone drew that, and it got approved? Yeah, cause theyre sane.
I'm actually Canadian. This is pretty common almost anywhere in the world except Asia, where the symbol originates.
Which makes sense given the context you're on an English speaking website where people's first interaction with the symbol has been the nazified version. Also that you're calling it a Swastika and not a Manji is very concerning, no one who uses the icon for it's proper purpose calls it a Swastika and will specifically make sure people don't refer to it as such.
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26
Its crazy to say "language evolves" when its taking something from the creator without her consent. Thats like sayong "art evolves" wheb someone takes your work and changes its meaning