Was going to put these on some t-shirts, but not sure I like the "W" word in the first one.

[woodsprite]

Couldn't come up with anything else though.

W ise
O bjective
K ind
E mpathetic

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If you're not WOKE, you are ASLEEP!
(ie, comatose, hypnotized, numb,
insensitive, unconscious, unfeeling)

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WOKE: Aware of and actively attentive to societal facts
and issues (especially issues of racial and social
justice)

“woke,” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke.
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[Warpy]

1. I don't like the "W" word, either, it brings out the grammar nerd in me

The word is "awake."

The only use for woke is the past tense, "She wanted to sleep in but the kids woke her up," in the vernacular. It's more correct to say, "she wanted to sleep in but the kids awakened her," but nobody says that outside a classroom or tutoring session or maybe in pre WWII fiction.

In addition, "woke," as it's being used by some people under 30 today, is grating on a lot of other people because the word usage is ghetto. Now, if you're ghetto and proud of it, that's fine. If you're a kid from Shaker Heights using it, it's going to turn people off. You might find that sad, but that's the way the world is. You might want to restrict it to groups of like minded people.

/pedantry

No, I don't use it, myself. There were too many teachers in the extended family and I was an English tutor.

[vanlassie]

3. My mother was an English teacher too.

At what point do you think new words stopped being allowable in our language?

[werdna]

2. a W are n/t