CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up162
arrow-up162message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square139fedilink
minus-squarecelsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 month agodeleted by creator
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
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-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-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
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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
I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
That’s so fetch.