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Kattarina98

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Posted: Dec. 26 2011,12:43

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It gets better/worse.

Best New Conservative Words

It has to be a Poe. It has to be.

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You don't think "user Jwc" pulled Conservapedia's interesting statistics about the rise and thriumph of conservative words - complete with graph, no less - out of ... thin air?

Best New Conservative Words is a brain(?)child of Andrew Schlafly. Some interesting exchanges are in the archives of the talk page, like:

http://conservapedia.com/Talk:Es....ed_Test

http://conservapedia.com/Talk:Es....CENTURY

http://conservapedia.com/Talk:Es....be_True

http://conservapedia.com/Talk:Es....aphs...

Andrew Schlafly is the perfect example of a self-righteous YEC. For laughs, read the following pages (and have a look at the talk-pages, where generation after generation of blocked editor tries to talk some sense into him):

http://conservapedia.com/Counter....d_Earth

http://conservapedia.com/Counter....ativity

http://conservapedia.com/Counter....olution

Thanks for the links. It's just as I suspected - a lot of work to put icing on a turd, and two of the contributors noticed the congenital defect of the project. This is from your first link, near the top of the page:

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I think this article needs a clear definition of what is meant by "conservative words." As I was reading it, I found it unclear as to whether it's about words invented by Conservatives or words representing Conservative values. I gather it's the latter, but I had to look in the talk page to find that. Either way, the introduction to the article isn't very clear and I'm reluctant to write a definition since I'm not sure I'm on the same page as the contributors. Would someone care to do that? EMorris 13:49, 2 June 2010 (EDT)

As far as I can tell, it seems to be "words we like to use." I think it's pretty apparent that the claim that they "represent conservative values" is false... saying that, for example, the word "carpetbagger" represents conservative values is kind of insulting. Some of the words here are obviously included for their utility in showcasing liberal failings rather than their inherent "conservative value". I would argue that the using the term "conservative words" is actually kind of pejorative; while not quite as catchy, perhaps "words you may find useful" would be better? Calling them conservative words allows liberals to dismiss them more easily: "Those aren't real words, those are just conservative neologisms." PTorquemada 17:00, 4 April 2011 (EDT)

(I deactivated the hyperlinks - K.)

And could someone please point me to the graph mentioned by Kristine re AfDave? If it's not too complicated, I'll have a go.

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