CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlBanned to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square159linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlBanned to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square159linkfedilink
minus-squarecelsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years 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-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoI think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
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But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
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
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
That’s so fetch.