@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-square299fedilinkarrow-up12.33K
arrow-up12.33Kmessage-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square299fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink27•2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-square[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoIt’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
minus-squarePyrolinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoWhy do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoUsing America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoYou mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAnd the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
the argument is about america??
You mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
OK so I still think it’s wrong
And the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
Let me know when you find it lol