| ▲ | phkahler 6 days ago |
| >> but I will "vote against" using the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" as long as I can. Can we have also declare war on using "exponentially" in place of "significantly"? |
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| ▲ | scoot 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Or “decimated”’to mean “practically destroyed” when it means the opposite… |
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| ▲ | Quekid5 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Interesting use of "declare war" there... :) I understand the feeling, but language is what language does. It will change and you will notice those changes if you're alive long enough :) Even prescriptivist languages (as my own native language tends to be) cannot escape. I'm bad at my own native language because I've been living elsewhere for very long... but not as bad as the Kids These Days :) |
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| ▲ | card_zero 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | You can participate in these changes. You can participate by resisting if you want. That's not futile, it's part of the process. | | |
| ▲ | Quekid5 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah... or I could focus my energies elsewhere... where they'd be likely to have an impact. So it goes. |
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| ▲ | umanwizard 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | There is no such thing as a “prescriptive language”. What would that mean? No living language is only used according to the rules laid down by grammar teachers. The only languages that are are dead languages like Latin with zero native speakers. | | |
| ▲ | Quekid5 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I think you'll find I used a slightly different word. > No living language is only used according to the rules laid down by grammar teachers. The only languages that are are dead languages like Latin with zero native speakers. Well, quite. |
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