@Daft_ish to Showerthoughts • 8 months agoPeople are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.message-square47arrow-up1115arrow-down122
arrow-up193arrow-down1message-squarePeople are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.@Daft_ish to Showerthoughts • 8 months agomessage-square47
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish11•8 months agoThat’s the cool thing about language , if enough people do something for long enough then it starts being right Out of everything you were ever taught, it’s the only thing that works by Tinkerbell rules. If enough people believes something is real. It’s real. Otherwise we’d all still be talking like William Shakespeare
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•8 months agoYou’re saying we’re led by the cool kids. That’s so fetch.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦linkfedilink2•8 months agoI mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
minus-square@Dasuslink1•8 months agoWell you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold. Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic
That’s the cool thing about language , if enough people do something for long enough then it starts being right
Out of everything you were ever taught, it’s the only thing that works by Tinkerbell rules. If enough people believes something is real. It’s real.
Otherwise we’d all still be talking like William Shakespeare
You’re saying we’re led by the cool kids.
That’s so fetch.
I mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
Well you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold.
Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic
Forsooth, verily, and widdershins