• @thevoidzero
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      133 months ago

      But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.

    • @barsquid
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      113 months ago

      But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      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

    • @z00s
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      33 months ago

      I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that