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Each year the English language develops about a thousand new words. Over the course of a century, that amounts to 100,000 new words. Since the King James Version of the Bible was published in 1611, perhaps a half a million new English words have been developed.
A small percentage of those new words are tremendously powerful. Here are some examples developed since the King James Version was published:
| New Term | Origin date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| accountability | 1794 | |
| affirmative action | 1965 | |
| American dream | 1911 (OED)[1] | |
| bailout | 1951 | The verbal form to bail out (in a figurative sense, which is meant here) dates from the 1580s. The literal sense is somewhat earlier. [2] |
| bureaucracy | 1818 | |
| competitive | 1829 | |
| conservative | 1831 | |
| culture war | 1991 | widespread use after the book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter |
| deregulation | 1963 | Reagan won in 1980 by campaigning on this. |
| deterrence | 1861 | |
| dumb down | 1933 | |
| efficiency | 1633 | Ultimately from the Latin efficientem, meaning "working out, or accomplishing"[3] |
| elitism | 1950 | |
| entitlement | 1944 | |
| free enterprise | 1820 | |
| go-getter | 1921 | |
| Good Samaritan | 1640 | how genuine charity is the best approach; |
| grade inflation | 1975 | the tendency by Liberal educationalists and public schools to increase marks, irrespective of merit or actual achievement. |
| grassroots | 1901 | |
| homeschool | 1980[4] | |
| hysteria | 1801 | From the Latin hystericus, from Greek hystera meaning "womb"[5] (an old notion that hysteria was caused by the womb). |
| meritocracy | 1958 | |
| me-too | 1881 | |
| opportunity cost | 1911 | |
| phonics | 1684 | |
| politically correct | 1983 | This term originated at the liberal University of Madison-Wisconsin to enforce liberal orthodoxy, but immediately flipped in usage to become a term of mockery of liberals.[6] |
| potential | 1817[7] | |
| privatize | 1940 | to return a business or enterprise from state to private control; to de-nationalize. |
| productive | 1612 | |
| pro-life | 1960 | |
| property right | 1853 | |
| responsibility | 1737 | 1787 HAMILTON Federalist No. 63 II. 193 Responsibility in order to be reasonable must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party. |
| self-defense | 1651 | |
| self-discipline | 1838 | |
| self-indulgence | 1753 | |
| self-reliant | 1848 | |
| victimization | 1840 | |
| wannabee | 1981 | the second most recent entry; a word that criticizes liberal status worship |
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Rate of Generation of Conservative Terms
The rate of generation of conservative terms is increasing:
| Century | # New Conservative Terms |
|---|---|
| 1600s | 5 |
| 1700s | 3 |
| 1800s | 12 |
| 1900s | 16 |
Conservative Words Not Yet Recognized by the Dictionary
A thousand new words are developed in English each year. Here is a growing list of conservative concepts, each of which is not yet defined by a single word or two.
| Not Yet Recognized Terms | Suggestions | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Unaffected by, or impervious to, the media | mediaproof | cf. bulletproof. Once John became aware of the extent of liberal deceit, he set about mediaproofing his mind. |
| easily amused by deceit | dolophile | from Greek/Latin root dolo- meaning guile, deceit, deception [1] |
| the opposite of materialism | spiritualism and idealism have been its philosophical opposites, historically | dualism has been suggested, but it is not the opposite of materialism; "spiritualism" is not a common term and is the "opposite" of materialism |
| runaway jury | The term has existed for decades, but Merriam-Webster has not recognized it yet. | |
| second-generation atheist | cradle atheist | |
| denial that Hell exists | Hell-denier? | |
| deliberate ignorance | the term exists; the dictionary does not yet include it | |
| proven wrong, a refusal to admit it | mulism | cf. mulish. This refusal is what promoted the Parable of the Good Samaritan. |
| term limits | can you believe this is not in the dictionary yet? Merriam-Webster omits it, but dictionary.com includes it with an origin date of 1861[2] | |
| illegal alien | widely used in court decisions and political discourse for years, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it is as a term. | |
| strict constructionism | an important term for over 200 years to describe adherence to the text of the Constitution, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it. | |
| denier of the effectiveness of abstinence | abstinence-denier? | |
| anti-family | tradition opposer | |
| militant gays | intimidating homosexual | |
| causing harm by spreading falsehoods | e.g., denying or concealing disease and infertility caused by promiscuity |
New liberal words
New liberal words often have deceptive, or nonsensical, meanings. Here are some new words created by liberals to combat conservatism:
| New Term | Origin date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| atheist | 1571 | |
| "Big Bang" | 1948 | term invented by the leading British physicist Sir Fred Hoyle to mock this suggestion of how the universe was formed |
| carbon footprint | 1999[8] | term indicates an individual human's effect on the environment by production of carbon dioxide |
| class warfare | first entered the political lexicon primarily as an attack by liberals against conservatives. [9] | |
| communism | 1840 | |
| compassion fatigue | 1968 | Liberals, driven by materialistic self-interest, are likely to suffer from this. |
| condescension | 1647 | |
| Dark Ages | 1730 | A term coined in the so-called enlightenment to disparage the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and c.1000, when the Christian faith, and its learning and culture, spread across Europe. |
| detente | 1970s | A euphemism referring to pacifist policy re. the Soviet Union |
| distributive justice | A term used to redefine socialist abridgment of rights as "just" | |
| enlightenment | 1669 | |
| environmentalism | 1922 | a mixture of pseudoscience and neo-paganism used to justify the imposition of socialistic controls. |
| fundamentalism | 1922 | "a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching"[10] From a series of pamphlets called "The Fundamentals" which outlined the movement. Perjorative usage started when the liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick began using the term in a straw man attack against Conservative Christianity. |
| feminism | 1895 | notionally, "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes"; in reality, the attempt to destroy traditional family, societal and religious values by erasing or undermining natural gender differences. |
| gay rights | 1969 | The movement for civil rights for homosexuals |
| glass ceiling | 1984 | the notion that an invisible barrier prevents women and ethnic minorities from reaching high office; an excuse for feminists and others to demand affirmative action |
| global warming | 1969 | The baseless environmentalist mantra that the earth's temperature is rising, and that human intervention is the cause. |
| homophobia | 1969 | used by Liberals to describe a failure to subscribe 100% to the homosexual agenda. |
| humanism | 1832 | |
| imperialism | 1851 | a clever term later used by liberals to interfere with Christian missionaries and stopping anti-Christian tyranny |
| isolationism | 1922 | a pejorative term that is critical of American politicians putting America first in priorities |
| Keynesianism | 1946 | advocacy of 'tax and spend' policies as elaborated by the economist John Maynard Keynes; a euphemism for back-door Socialism. |
| Living Constitution | 2000 | a continually evolving Constitution (first used by presidential candidate Al Gore, title of a 1936 book by Howard McBain) |
| people are animals | ||
| politically correct | 1936 | According to some sources, the term originally comes from Chairman Mao |
| population control | 1968 | the issue of population dates back to Confucius. Liberals promoted the term after the book The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich |
| pro-choice | 1975 | a euphemism for insisting on taxpayer-funded abortion; people who claim to be pro-choice typically oppose informed choice, which makes the "choice" meaningless |
| progressivism | 1892 | the progressive movement was not entirely liberal; it was started by a Republican and shared some goals with conservatives, and still does |
| quote mining | non-existent | a term used by evolutionists without logical meaning |
| racism | If you don't support Barack Obama, you are guilty of.... | |
| sexism | 1968 | That which is practiced by those who do not give total support to feminism. |
| strict liability | 1869 | court-imposed liability even when there is no evidence of any fault by the defendant |
| Swift-Boating | 2004 | Allegations of unfair campaign tactics when the truth is exposed about a liberal candidate. |
| undocumented immigrant | 2000 | a politically correct replacement for illegal alien. |
| unfair | 1700 | |
| union shop | 1904 | |
| unitarian | 1687 |
Downgraded Conservative Terms
These conservative terms are less significant:
| byzantine | 1794[11] | |
| entropy | 1868 | |
| filibuster | 1851 | |
| media | 1923 | |
| milquetoast | 1933 | |
| normalcy | 1920 | related to the election of Warren G. Harding by the largest margin yet in history |
| radar | 1940 | Acronym of "Radio Detection and Ranging"; inclusion here being challenged on talk page |
Sources
References
- ↑ OED refers to the Oxford English Dictionary. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives a date of 1931.
- ↑ OED, bail, v1
- ↑ Online Etymological Dictionary
- ↑ The OED assigns a date of origin of 1850 to "homeschool".
- ↑ Meriam Webster Dictionary
- ↑ But see 1793 J. WILSON in U.S. Rep. (U.S. Supreme Court) 2 (1798) 462 Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our..language... ‘The United States’, instead of the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not *politically correct
- ↑ Usage here refers to "promise", not "possibility".
- ↑ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carbon%20footprint
- ↑ The art of "class warfare", Ben Fritz, Spinsanity.org, January 15, 2003
- ↑ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamentalism
- ↑ The usage here -- in sense of complex governmental rules -- probably developed later.
