Culture is one thing that cMusicWeb.com wants to impact. Sadly, some of
today's culture are so bad we need to rebel against it. Our writer of the
Views section, Melissa Miles, delivers a moving refute of today's
"politically correct" movements, which is slowly eating away at the English
language as we know it. We hope you enjoy this column, and remember that we
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THE HIJACKING OF LANGUAGE (PART 1)
by Melissa Miles

Computer viruses can be nasty little buggers. File by file they eat away at
a computer until it serves no higher purpose than a really large
paperweight. I had a friend whose hard drive was eaten away by such a virus.
Every time he tried to open a file, the virus would delete it. There is a
similar virus sweeping through the files of the English language. There are
multitudes of words whose meaning has been twisted in a very dramatic
fashion.

There are several groups who use the tactic of language to further their
cause. The homosexuals are a good example. My mother's middle name is 'Gay.'
When she was born it meant happy or cheerful. I'm sure that wasn't the
meaning you gave when you read it. 'Over the Rainbow' is no longer sung by a
girl with braided pigtails who only wants to go home to Kansas. Homosexuals
have even brought us a new word: 'Homophobe.' It's a spiffy little title
that is quickly slapped on anyone who is not 'tolerant' of the homosexual
lifestyle. Ah-ha! There we have another prisoner that has been added to
their collection. Have you noticed that anytime you hear 'tolerance' or any
variation of that word, it is spoken by people who have no tolerance? Do you
think the people who are pushing for 'tolerance' would follow their own
rules if you wanted to read your Bible and pray at your school? Try it next
time, and tell me what happens.

Another 'word warden' is the Feminist movement. Salesmen and firemen have
been replaced with more 'female friendly' versions like 'clerk' or
'firefighter.' The feminists are almost militant about the use of their
vocabulary. I had a speech teacher who actually lowered my grade because I
used 'mailman' instead of 'postal worker' in one of my papers. Recently
Zondervan Publishing released 'Today's New International Version' of the
Bible, which replaced words like 'he' and 'men' with 'they' and 'people.'
There is even a movement to get dictionaries to make the correct spelling of
'women' to 'womyn' to get those evil guys out of their name. In the
unchanged words of Charlie Brown: "Good grief!"

This isn't just some ho-hum problem. Language is a gift that was made by the
same God who made us. The same creativity that crafted us in His image is
present in the art of communication. When people spit in the face of God by
living lives against the standards that He gave us in the Bible-that should
break our hearts. When those people take our words and twist them to fit
their agendas that should make us irate. A line needs to be drawn, and some
are not afraid to try it. Groups of people have started a boycott against
the TNIV Bible, and others are fighting against the homosexual and feminist
agendas. So what can we do? Let's try this: If you see a word that you think
has been hijacked, bring it up on the views discussion board. They aren't
hard to find, and we (with the help of God) can figure out ways to take
those words back and give them the meaning they were made for. Language is
far too precious to let it go because we might upset someone.

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