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Words and How They Piss Me Off
Disclaimer: I understand that languages change, that they always have and always will, and why that’s okay. And do not take this as a screed against the English language in particular; it was the second one I learned, and remains my favorite for many endeavors. But Jesus fucking Christ it pisses me off sometimes. So this is my windmill, let me tilt impotently at it.
“Multiverse”. Just listen to how stupid it sounds.
“Multiverse” is a word that was invented by morons who don’t understand the meaning of the word “universe”. I’ll give you a hint: “universe” means everything. Yeah, that’s right, everything. There is only one of it, because it contains, you guessed it, everything.
“But wait,” I hear you interject lamely, “there is plenty of science behind the multiverse theory”. Oh how wrong you are. I laugh linguistically in your general direction. First of all, it is a hypothesis at best and not a theory, but that’s not the point. The point is that if there are indeed other bubbles of existance besides our own — and there may well be as far as I know — then they are also part of the universe, and we were wrong to call our bubble “the” universe. Wrong, I tell you! In such case, it was just one part of of the universe. Jesus, this is the god damn atom farse all over again!
