I'm chatting with someone who has a very specific definition of a word they're trying to "take back" (more power to them!), and now I'm terribly curious...
What's something - a word, a style, an attitude, a food craze, an era, a mannerism - that you're on a mission to take/bring back? Something you'd love to see other people invoke the same way again?
(Answers can and should range from the goofy to the profound!)
@MLClark every so often here and back on classic Twitter my intermittent mission is to bring awareness of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most recently I brought it to my kid’s high school Civics teacher’s attention. My controversial stance is focusing and framing civil rights, laws, policies on shared humanity rather than carving out niches that pit groups against each other.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
I most strenuously cosign that one. We had a moment of great momentum back then - which we could have built upon ever since. We still can, and must: If our shared humanity isn't first and foremost in public policy, we all suffer for it - unequally, but in ways that diminish us all.
Thank you for your work on this important theme.
@MLClark pass it along in your work. The horrors of WWII prompted great humanitarian efforts and prompted a great deal of Social Psychological research. The military integration of WWII probably helped build some support for Civil Rights legislation to follow.
Presently, I also want to bring back the use of “presently” in writing.
@MLClark not as a direct replacement. Presently, I’d like to see the phrase “that’s so cringe” retired. I recoil at its use or similar derivations.
@CanisPundit
Oh, I promise you, as a self-proclaimed "global humanist", that document informs everything I try to do. :)
Presently, colour me intrigued by your interest in the word "presently"! Do you want it to replace anything overused?