ENGL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical Terminology, Pathos, Intellectual Disability
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Retard descriptive de nition- describes the word. ex. ) oxford dictionary (takes the words that people use a lot) Does not enforce an interpretation prescriptive- prescribes the word. how to correctly use the word. You need to respect the current meaning of the word because everyone nowadays are interpreting it some way. Their interpretation is what matters, even if you say it and you don"t mean it that way. Rogerian analysis- choose a side and nd a way to work for both sides: pro-banning, retard- disabled. Medical terminology used in a hurtful way: from the reading: we should ban this word because it hurts their feelings. Affects their self-esteem. author is his personal experience. Strong sides are issued: pathos- emotions, if you want to ban the word, come to a conclusion- socially ban. Make a campaign to get socially to stop people to say it. How you would interact this problem: different word for retard- special.
