So I should accept people saying “could care less” when they mean the exact opposite? Not sure I can do that.
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Descriptive language >> prescriptive language
And I’m still gonna bitch about it if they’ve reduced the usefulness of a word due to habitual misuse!
Yeah, I lucked out with my push to get people to use “lucked out” properly.
Lucked out means you were unlucky ffs, but no half of America is so brain dead it’s now acceptable to use it in reverse.
What really gets me is “And he said Quote Unquote Your mom is fat.”
It’s like putting both starting and ending quotation marks before the quote.
For all intensive purposes, the meaning of words matters less than how we use it. Irregardless of how we decimate it’s meaning, so long as we get the point across there is no need to nip it in the butt. Most people could care less.
I will hunt you for sport.
I’m filled with unreasonable blind rage now. Thank you.
For all intensive purposes, the meaning of words matters less than how we use it.
I think you mean fewer than how we use it lol.
::glares:: Well done. 😆
YeS, YoUrE rIgHt. aS lOnG aS tHe mEaNiNg iS uNdErStOod, iT dOeS NoT mAtTeR.
I don’t see the backside of Morpheus’ head.
Should look like that:
Well. Sort of.
Some terminology is better defined by how the relevant experts use it. It’s singular and precise definition is required for any useful dialogue. If 99% of people call a kidney a liver but doctors call it a kidney its a kidney.
Some terminology evolves and is used differently by different groups. Sometimes the more illiterate group flattens the language by removing nuance or even entirely removing a concept from a language with no replacement. Arguably both definitions may be common usage but one is worse and using it means you are.
I feel like people forget that words can have multiple definitions. You can have a technical definition and a popular definition
Some word usage just becomes so common everyone, even generational gaps understand it. If you talk to an 18 or a 65 year old and say the word blowjob, they both know what you mean, yet they aren’t out there blowing on dicks or trying to force air up urethras… Hopefully…
yet they aren’t out there blowing on dicks or trying to force air up urethras… Hopefully…
I see you don’t regularly read the sex forums and questions on reddit.
Hopes dashed. It’s not common, but there are some people who have the right combination of circumstances to make them think blowjobs involve the movement of air.
I’ve allready to rite we’ll, but than my conscious sad, “For get the rules,” so I let my lose ideals led me. I’m two stubborn to accept that I should of staid in school.
I think I had a stroke reading this.
My arms were too short to reach.
Yes, but you understood it eventually, so you can’t criticize it.
Understanding something eventually isn’t the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don’t have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.
I’m not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can’t help it. That’s ok. I’ll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won’t mind at all.
But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won’t give you the time of day forever.
LITERALLY everyone!
Literally being used as an intensifier bothers me less than inflammable meaning both flammable and not flammable.
I remember when that word meant something.
Cool
But do you mean literally everyone or literally everyone?
If it is not literally everyone, it still might be correct in the way that using a word for (one of) its jargon meaning(s) is correct. So, correct in context.
When using words to convey information to an audience to whom you might not be able to clarify, it is useful to use words for the meanings listed in common dictionar(y/ies) (“correctly”) so that the audience can resolve confusions through those dictionaries.
I mean this i show it literally works, right?
What if I told you that if everyone uses a word the “wrong” way, in slightly different ways, it’s wrong?
even worse, everyone spells that word wrong
“Everyone” meaning the social media someone and their social set get their info and cues from, not the rest of the people around them.
“Everyone” meaning folks off-line who you feel the urge to keep correcting because you got hounded by grammar nazis on the internet and now the “correct” meaning is branded into your skull.
Off line? Who is being a grammar Nazi IRL?
