Sunday, January 15, 2006

Orwell-ish note

The similarity betweem "inequality" and "inequity" is particularly unfortunate, not because they have nothing to do with each other, but because they do - without being anything close to identical. People tend to eradicate important semantic differences because they find keeping too many in mind is simply too taxing on their poor befuddled brains, and when the words themselves adhere, well - it's all over for reasoned conversation.

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