• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      7 months ago

      1: Blah blah blah linguistic shifts

      2: How would you know if he’s not using correctly? You think a 4chan shit poster is above having a head in a fridge?

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        7 months ago

        France has an authority for their language and its three main domestic dialects.

        It’d be nice if a similar but global body gate-kept the drift in English. The current system where high-school cliques decides what’s Fetch and Mirriam-Webster’s monkeys just write it all down with no cohesion is not a basis for progress.

        Language people: English has surprising inconsistencies.

        Also language people: ‘literally’ now also means its exact opposite because Ashley said so.

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          Is there some frequency (weekly? monthly?) with which drift has impaired your communications, impacted your work?

          It’s OK if it’s just a general frustration, I’m only curious.