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.
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?
@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.