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Old 09-23-2019, 05:06 AM   #2105
Luke Bunyip
 
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Default Re: Real-Life Weirdness

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Originally Posted by ak_aramis View Post
It's never aliens... except when it is.

It's interesting how the term has shifted.

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We might not be changing the spellings of the words, but we sure as hell are changing the common connotations, and in some cases, primary denotations of words... And that's a real life weirdness all its own.
IIRC, psychologists were originally called alienists. To wit, the word comes from the French aliéniste, from aliéné, for insane.
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