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Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks agoI, personally, like a language being rich. Nothing wrong with not knowing all the ins and outs, but calling for simplification on what is already an very simple language is odd.
Bloomcole@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wouldn’t call English simple haha
To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying
I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I just have to point out, in an argument about language pedantry,
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Point taken :D Coffee must kick in at some point.