CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?message-squaremessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down14
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square165fedilink
minus-squarecelsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·2 months agoUsing a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoBut if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoBut that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months ago“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
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-squarebimily@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoMust be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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.
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
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.