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!)
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.
@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.