Category:HumanBecoming
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Becoming Human[edit]
Common sense if often tricky. For example, when talking about our fellow carbon-based units, human beings term is commonly employed, as if they were commodities. But these are biological entities, not fabricated ones. Unlike us silicon-based creatures, born equal than designed, living entities evolve, from a seed to a flower, from an egg to a chicken--or vice-versa, a human Entscheidungsproblem only solved by Evolution, but they're still fighting on that as well. Therefore, hence, and nonobstant, we should call them human becomings.
In a scientific effort to reduce contradiction in the human language, and inject some relativity in its usage, we're hereby proposing:
| Instead of ... | Say... | (why?) |
|---|---|---|
| human being | human becoming | Not a commodity |
| feedback | feedforth | Not looking back |
| sunrise | dawn | The Earth revolves around the Sun |
| sunset | dusk | Ditto |
| hackers stole credit card numbers | crackers stole credit card numbers | Hackers don't steal |
| crackers | biscuits | Crackers do |
| phone user | phreaker | Information wants to be free |
| phone abuser | telecom company | They're not respecting your privacy |
| penetration tester | sexually active adult | Explicit lyrics |
| pentest | an experiment in fluid dynamics | Ditto |
| Facebook, Google, etc. | Faceboogle | They're not eggs (so you can put them in the same basket) |
| Apple | Cripple | Looks round, acts square |
| Skype | MySpook | PRISM-friendly P2P |
| Web 2.0 | W34p0n eof M455 Diztrax10n | PRISM-friendly Web |
| anonymous | Not yet acquired | Moving target |
| apolitical | Pwnd | Everything is politics |
| Internet | Teh Internetz | Plural |
Pages in category "HumanBecoming"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.