evolution of language

[pcstorm33]

How do you feel about the way words our community uses ("kin" in particular) have been co-opted into common online vernacular and made into memes/jokes, with their original weight entirely stripped away from them? I personally can't help but be made a little uncomfortable by it- it feels as if I cannot use these words for their intended purpose anymore because people will assume I'm joking. But at the same time, I understand that language inevitably evolves. What do you all think?

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[summerfoxandthehellhound]

Like 'trigger', etc, I think it does devalue the terms as they do lose all meaning, but at the same time, personally, we're not especially bothered by what people outside the community do as they don't understand and within the community people DO understand, but I appreciate that for people who want people outside the community to begin to get it, it's difficult...

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