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somat 2 hours ago

Or Andrew Jackson approaching the problem from the other end.

“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”

As a rather, well... "creative" speller I blame Webster for locking things down and ruining it for the rest of us.

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jimmydddd an hour ago | parent [-]

I few years ago I saw a TV interview where some gen-z kid confidently stated: "the dictdionary is supposed to reflect how I talk, not the other was around."

	▲	tux3 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Also known as descriptivism. That's what it do.
	▲	xboxnolifes 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The tricky part is that spoken language and written language are not the same. Even if you are a descriptionist that believes dictionaries should represent how people write, it doesn't necessarily mean that the spelling changes based on how people pronounce it.
	▲	saulpw 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		A natural descriptivist.
	▲	eru an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's actually how many of the dictionary people see themselves.