Gil Duran, who co-runs the great TheFramelab.org blog/newsletter on politics, language and the brain sent this note: This seems like a question of "sound symbolism." "Dodge" = Evasion, Trickery. "Dodge" reinforces a frame of deception, avoidance, and corporate misdirection. This fits the idea of a billionaire-led government takeover that sidesteps democratic accountability.
Corporations often "dodge" taxes, regulations, and oversight—an apt metaphor for a private takeover of public institutions. This pronunciation encodes corporate trickery into the name itself.
There's no reason to accept the other, odd pronouncing of the word.
The writer Erica Gies sent this note by email: Heather Cox Richardson calls it Doggie, which I love. She's so serious, yet she routinely undermines its authority with this snarky nickname. She's never explained it. She's just called it that from the get-go.
Then there are the Artful Dodgers.
Indeed!!
Gil Duran, who co-runs the great TheFramelab.org blog/newsletter on politics, language and the brain sent this note: This seems like a question of "sound symbolism." "Dodge" = Evasion, Trickery. "Dodge" reinforces a frame of deception, avoidance, and corporate misdirection. This fits the idea of a billionaire-led government takeover that sidesteps democratic accountability.
Corporations often "dodge" taxes, regulations, and oversight—an apt metaphor for a private takeover of public institutions. This pronunciation encodes corporate trickery into the name itself.
There's no reason to accept the other, odd pronouncing of the word.
The writer Erica Gies sent this note by email: Heather Cox Richardson calls it Doggie, which I love. She's so serious, yet she routinely undermines its authority with this snarky nickname. She's never explained it. She's just called it that from the get-go.