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Will everyone agree to use the same words to mean the same thing?

The great L. S. Vygotsky in "Thought and Word" (1934):

In our speech, there is always the hidden thought, the subtext. Because a direct transition from thought to word is impossible, there have always been laments about the inexpressibility of thought:

How shall the heart express itself?

How shall another understand?

(F. Tiutchev)

“Learning a language and growing up to be a competent member of a community means becoming tuned to certain features of the social and physical environments of that community, knowing how to attend to what feature and when and knowing what behaviors are called for in response to that attention” [Andresen, 2016: 24].

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.  

Martin Heidegger

Will the Americans switch now to "Moskva" and dump "Moscow'?  Clowns! 

For considerations of the so called “political correctness” all the major English news sources thoroughly switch from “Kiev” to "Kyiv" for all newly-published articles.

THE FIVE BEST LANGUAGES TO LEARN FOR BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD:

1. (Mandarin) Chinese 2. Arabic  3. Spanish 4. Russian 5. Portuguese

https://nomadcapitalist.com/2013/11/03/top-5-best-language-learn/

April 1, 2019 Post-truth politics is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored.

Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin

Last year, “pansexual” briefly became the online dictionary Merriam-Webster’s most searched word of the day after the singer Janelle Monáe defined herself as a pansexual and “queer-ass motherfucker”.