@phaedrux_pharo to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 11 months agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-square311arrow-up12.56Karrow-down1152
arrow-up12.41Karrow-down1message-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button@phaedrux_pharo to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square311
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•11 months agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoIt’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
minus-square@aidanlink0•11 months agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-square@aidanlink1•11 months agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-squarePyrolinkEnglish-2•11 months agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-square@aidanlink0•11 months agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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the argument is about america??
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Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
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Webster wouldn’t have cared
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Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
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For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.