CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 days agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down14
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 days agomessage-square164fedilink
minus-squarecelsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·2 days agoUsing a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days 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-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoI think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 day agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
Using a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
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
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
That’s so fetch.