So, which side of the debate is the word "fetus" on?
A Note About Today’s Wordle Game
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
This word, in this context, should not matter. It is essentially a random word, inserted far in advance, that happens to relate to current events. The fact that it matters to anyone here is a symptom of the severe societal illness that publications like the NYT are helping to spread. How long until dictionaries and textbooks are forced to change the definition of "fetus" because it makes some people uncomfortable to…
This has nothing to do with the definition of the word and everything to do with NYT not wanting to be perceived as injecting political commentary into a politically neutral product.
I understand that, and agree with putting out an editor's note about it. I just think that the second sentence in the example editor's note provided should not be necessary, and the simple explanation of what happened should be sufficient.
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#43So, which side of the debate is the word "fetus" on?
The side that makes NYT editors uncomfortable and subscribers complain, I imagine.
Seems odd to have an article about it but I don’t think the word is associated with one side or another.
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#44Why does NYTimes offer a .onion site that still requires a recaptcha, loading resources from google and other 3rd parties directly?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same reason you might want to avoid "rifle" the day after a mass school shooting. The US is in the midst of an "abortion law" crisis (undoing abortion and birth control rights in order put women "back in their place", rolling back half a century of progress), and now is not the time for the word they replaced.
That's a gross mischaracterization of what's going on. The fact is the web of tissue-thin Supreme Court decisions never should have taken the place of a law. Congress needs to get off its collective tukus and pass a law; their job as the Legislative Branch. That they haven't done so is because they want this to be a wedge issue that drives people to go vote. The tenuous nature of privacy precedent was too useful as a…
While you stick to ideals and advocate for how things should work, the reality of how things actually work is that many states as well as the federal government, independently but concerted, are setting back society for women in the US by several decades. So perhaps thicker skin can also include "not minding when someone or some company does something like this, because they understand that sometimes, words matter".
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I’m a bit puzzled on why do such a thing at all, but okay.
Same reason you might want to avoid "rifle" the day after a mass school shooting. The US is in the midst of an "abortion law" crisis (undoing abortion and birth control rights in order put women "back in their place", rolling back half a century of progress), and now is not the time for the word they replaced.
That’s about as fair as a characterisation of that debate as saying “people want to keep R vs. W because they love killing babies”. The simple difference between the sides is one thinks whatever it is that’s in the womb is a human life, the other does not. Both sides’ believe their positions are essentially rooted in compassion — one for the adult, one for (according to their understanding) the child.
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#48> When we discovered last week that this particular word would be featured today, we switched it for as many solvers as possible.
Why ?
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#49That's funny because "plant" was a solution on Earth Day, I thought that was suspicious too...
That could have been deliberately planned by Wardle well in advance. The issue wasn't so much with today's word, as the timing of it looks like it was deliberately placed recently.
He has said it was a randomized list and he played the game two - so wouldn’t know in advance
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#50That's funny because "plant" was a solution on Earth Day, I thought that was suspicious too...
That could have been deliberately planned by Wardle well in advance. The issue wasn't so much with today's word, as the timing of it looks like it was deliberately placed recently.
PLANT landed on Earth Day as a result of changes made to the word list after Wordle was acquired. You can compare the word lists from before and after the acquisition and see that some words were removed completely, but others were moved to be a solution on a future date.
I’m no conspiracy theorist but I suspect PLANT was deliberate.