Corruption of meaning

Verbicide is the deliberate distortion of the sense of a word (as in punning).

1. Homicide and verbicide – that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life – are alike forbidden. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858).

2. The use of foreign words aside from technical terms, tends to be rather emotional and vague. They are often used with meanings and in grammatical contexts quite different from their original ones. This degrades the local culture and robs the young of the profundity of their own language.

3. Language that describes abstractions or ideas more readily loses its meaning than language used for concrete things.

1. Unethical practices of interpreters
2. Meaninglessness
3. Interpretation and translation errors

1. Terminological ambiguities
2. Misappropriation of terms
3. Excessive use of acronyms and abbreviations

1. Language as a barrier to communication
2. Crisis of truth
3. Crisis of meaning
4. Epistemic injustice

1. Verbal ugliness
2. Unethical intellectual practices
3. Misuse of language
4. Limited verbal skills

1. Incomprehensibility of specialized jargon
2. Deconstruction
3. Corruption of documents

1. Corrupting meaning

1. Well-meaning
2. Meaningfulness
3. Independence
4. Dependence
5. Demeaning
6. Corruption