Wait so simple direction signifier into an argumentative / rhetorical diss (one assumes, overthwert), into an adjective about being a stubborn jerk, into a verb about stubborn-jerking someone else from doing something, to thwart.
Meanwhile there’s an ongoing history of whatever approximates “clinical” vocabulary for contemporary understanding of disabilities (a la idiot, imbecile, etc.) - words being originally descriptive / diagnostic, and then adapted over time for use as insults, then worse, necessitating new “unflavored” words for the (ideally merely) descriptive purposes, and the cycle repeats.
All that to say, amazing how much language changes by humans wanting to say jerky things to each other and co-opt other meanings into dickhead rhetoric over time lmao.
Wait so simple direction signifier into an argumentative / rhetorical diss (one assumes, overthwert), into an adjective about being a stubborn jerk, into a verb about stubborn-jerking someone else from doing something, to thwart.
Meanwhile there’s an ongoing history of whatever approximates “clinical” vocabulary for contemporary understanding of disabilities (a la idiot, imbecile, etc.) - words being originally descriptive / diagnostic, and then adapted over time for use as insults, then worse, necessitating new “unflavored” words for the (ideally merely) descriptive purposes, and the cycle repeats.
All that to say, amazing how much language changes by humans wanting to say jerky things to each other and co-opt other meanings into dickhead rhetoric over time lmao.