phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-squaremessage-square253linkfedilinkarrow-up12.31K
arrow-up12.31Kmessage-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonphaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square253linkfedilink
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarePyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
minus-squarenuez_jr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoIt’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
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Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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the argument is about america??
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Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
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Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
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Webster wouldn’t have cared
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.