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minus-square@Viking_Hippielink-2•edit-25 months agoNope, both descriptivism and prescriptivism have merit, depending on the specific case. A lot of people using a word as having the opposite meaning out of pure ignorance and/or carelessness is one case where prescriptivism is warranted. I’ll die on this fucking hill 😄
minus-square@Belastendlink1•5 months agoAnd you will die on a linguistically untenable hill. Redefining words had happened throughout history and language hasnt died out and its not gotten worse.
minus-square@Viking_Hippielink1•5 months ago And you will die on a linguistically untenable hill Is this your way of warning me against going hiking in Wales? 😉 language hasn’t died out Of course not. That’s literally impossible. Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey. and its not gotten worse. That’s of mixed veracity at best.
Nope, both descriptivism and prescriptivism have merit, depending on the specific case.
A lot of people using a word as having the opposite meaning out of pure ignorance and/or carelessness is one case where prescriptivism is warranted.
I’ll die on this fucking hill 😄
Literally?
No, figuratively.
And you will die on a linguistically untenable hill. Redefining words had happened throughout history and language hasnt died out and its not gotten worse.
Is this your way of warning me against going hiking in Wales? 😉
Of course not. That’s literally impossible. Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
That’s of mixed veracity at best.