CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down13
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square164fedilink
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minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 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-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
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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
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
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.
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
That’s so fetch.