CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 个月前What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down14
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 个月前message-square160fedilink
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minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·9 个月前But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 个月前“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·9 个月前But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 个月前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
minus-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·9 个月前Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 个月前I 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.