@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-square158fedilinkarrow-up164
arrow-up164message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agomessage-square158fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•9 months agoI think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•9 months agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•9 months agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•9 months agoLear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•9 months ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
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I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
Lear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
That’s so fetch.
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.