"The exhibition, even though it was a commercial one, should have been more sensible with its timing, especially since Japanese rightist politicians headed by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe persist with words and actions that strain Japan's ties with its Asian neighbours," Zhu Ping wrote in the China Daily.
Plenty of other abusive words persist, in all countries, that demean people with disabilities of all kinds but there's something about the R-word that means the continued throwaway abuse of it really hits a nerve.
The words persist, but the belief they vouchsafe has long gone.
Ultimately, it is everyday English speakers, not management consultants or linguistic purists, who determine which words persist and which are discarded.
Or, if you actually know what they are talking about, they will persist in using words you don't know, many of which will be slang or prove not to be in any dictionary.
When, last year, some computer scientists at the University of Minnesota studied millions of Wikipedia edits, they found that most of the good ones - those whose words persisted intact through many later viewings - were made by a tiny percentage of contributors.
Conservatives use "hate speech" the way they use words like "diversity" and "bias," in the hope that the moral valence that the terms acquired in the context of civil rights will persist when the words are applied to partisan divisions, even if their meanings are altered in the process.
Persist 64 words indicating "stick to it" and endurance.
This activation was robust, persisting across both selections of emotion words consistently despite precise control of psycholinguistic properties (Fig. 3).
Incorporating only the frequency of a word's use and its part of speech (noun, verb, numeral, etc). and ignoring its sound— the model could predict how long the word persisted through time.
Tom's passion for the written word persisted throughout his scholarly pursuits, and he earned a BA in Communications with a concentration in Journalism as an undergraduate.
