[MR] Public use of the term "medieval"

[Gina Shelley]

This is exactly what I am saying. At some point, stupidity and willful ignorance hits a point where one should not bend to it's influence. At this point, by refusing to use a perfectly acceptable, accurate, and correct word in order not to offend someone is tantamount to agreeing with the idiots. 

 

That's like agreeing that 2+2=5 just so you don't offend someone. 

 

If anything, we need to be teaching them better, not agreeing with them. If teaching them is even possible. I would like to hope that the vast majority of reasonably intelligent people who hear someone go "well, the word's mid-EVIL, ya'll, it's got the word EVIL raht there in it!" wouild have pretty much the same reaction that we all would have. Nobody but another idiot is going to take a statement like that seriously. 

 

Dulcy
> 
> The trouble is, "Middle ages" is a NOUN. "Mediaeval" is an ADJECTIVE.
> 
> We don't replicate "middle ages life" -- we study "mediaeval life."'
> 
> There comes a point where you just have to realize there are idiots 
> out there. You can try to educate them, but there are idiots.
> 
>

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