CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down13
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square162fedilink
minus-squarecelsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·1 year agoUsing a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year 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-down1·1 year agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
Using a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
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.