• @aidan
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    -105 months ago

    language evolving doesn’t make people dumber

    • JJROKCZ
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      85 months ago

      It does if that “evolution” consists of removing large or complex words simply because they’re “too hard”

      • @aidan
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        -25 months ago

        They aren’t removed because they’re too hard, they’re removed because they’re inconvenient. They are removed when there is a more succinct and/or better understood alternative, for example “evolution” doesn’t have a good alternative to replace it. Memorizing relatively obscure words isn’t intellectual, and as simple building blocks as possible can often better communicate more complex ideas. There’s a reason C is better liked than C++