I don&#x27;t suspect users here have conscious ulterior motives. I think that ____ (insert one of {<i></i>media,<i></i> communists, political elites, liberals, aliens, etc}) have conditioned knee-jerk language-policing. This has the side-effect of taking the current thread off topic while muting substantive discourse in this and future posts.<p>The dictionary attack has been practiced in media for a long time. Watch a famous 50s news anchor interview an atheist author (I can think of specifics, but I don&#x27;t want to bias you). Back then it was obvious they were distorting what the interviewee was saying. The viewing audience wasn&#x27;t stupid, they were complicit because they didn&#x27;t agree with the atheist. Today this goes on, and occurs so regularly that no one cares if someone deliberately misunderstands something in order to be outraged. Actually whats even more telling is that this technique is a standard way to &quot;communicate&quot; political messages - just watch the campaigners.<p>I learned this dictionary problem while managing a startup with some employees who used a different dictionary than I. I&#x27;d say 80% of the conflict at work was due I say X while the other understood X&#x27;<p>Really if I had a way to efficiently and reliably transfer images in my head into theirs we would have saved countless hours and dollars