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===Protologisms=== | ===Protologisms=== | ||
Another counterargument to the misnomer proponents is pointing to protologisms. The English language is ever evolving, like other languages, because of gaps in the langauge. As such, English is not a perfect linguistic system with a word for every conceivable concept. In such a "gap" scenario, sometimes the most logical course is to utilize the nearest synonym to the concept you're trying to convey. This evolution of language is how "incel" went from complete obscurity, to suddenly being a ubiquitous word. | Another counterargument to the misnomer proponents is pointing to protologisms. The English language is ever evolving, like other languages, because of gaps in the langauge. As such, English is not a perfect linguistic system with a word for every conceivable concept. In such a "gap" scenario, sometimes the most logical course is to utilize the nearest synonym to the concept you're trying to convey. This evolution of language is how "incel" went from complete obscurity, to suddenly being a ubiquitous word. | ||
==Scare quotes== | |||
Scare quotes are double punctuation marks which pertain to doubtful rhetoric or being ironic or otherwise skeptical or in disagreement with its usage. Also called sneer quotes, shudder quotes or squibble marks, its usage conveys that the user believes they are using term quoted sarcastically in a manner similar to preceding a word with 'so-called''. | |||
During the mid-2010s, it remained prevalent for journalists to use scare quotes around the term ''incel'', or its derivatives such as ''inceldom'', ''[[femcel]]'', or even its unabbreviated forms such as [[involuntary celibacy]]. However, by the late 2010s, as the word exploded in usage, it was increasingly apparent that this near tic-like adamancy by the media to disapprove acknowledgement of the existence of the word became increasingly disingenuous. | |||
As such, a new strategy was devised by the [[fakestream media]] in an effort to categorize terms such as ''involuntary celibacy'' or ''incel'' as nonstandard. This new fakestream media tactic involves capitalizing the word incel. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of linguistics should know that uppercase should really only be used for an individual person a place, an organization or immediately after a period or as the first word of a document. The average layman may be left confused as to why capitalisation is misused to such an extent. However, upon closer inspections one sees why purveyors of such linguistic misuse, such as Eleanor Peake, are motivated by political leanings which advocate inceldom erasure, in essence the invisibility of involuntary celibacy, and [[apathy to male suffering]].<ref>https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/01/how-she-ghosted-me-men-being-radicalised-tinder-data-0</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||