Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

    • @[email protected]
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      3610 months ago

      In-store is, and language is fluid. If you understood what I meant we succeeded in communicating, anything else is you just trying to be better than someone else.

        • @abbotsbury
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          610 months ago

          Except language is demonstrably fluid, meanwhile it seems like your grasping of prescriptive pedantry is coincidentally just a lazy reason to try and be correct when everyone knew what “instore” meant.

          Do you say “God be with you” when departing, or just goodbye?

          • @[email protected]
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            -810 months ago

            Of course it is. That doesn’t mean every missing or grammatical mistake is an example of language evolving. Usually it’s just carelessness or ignorance.

            • @abbotsbury
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              310 months ago

              Carelessness or ignorance, believe it or not, evolve language. Have you heard of compound words?

        • @Kachilde
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          410 months ago

          Thefact thatyour commentcan stillbe understood kindof disprovesyour point.

          Beingpedantic aboutspaces andhyphens in anonline comment-section doesn’t makeyou a better-person.

            • @[email protected]
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              So where do we draw the line on when new words can’t be created anymore? Shakespeare? Wassup? Crunk? Your username even has LOL in it, I don’t think we should be taking language lessons from someone who parades that around….

              An online forum lacking in content and engagement isn’t the place to make a stand against minor mistakes that don’t detract from the conversation.

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                -510 months ago

                What I’m making a stand against is the position that there’s no such thing as bad grammar because it’s all just language evolution.