@[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-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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
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
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.
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.
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??
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
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
Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
And the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
Webster wouldn’t have cared
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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.