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HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Anybody who uses “literally” to mean anything but “literally”: a) needs to be caned, b) literally has no valuable opinions.
callyral@pawb.social 6 days ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Who is Merriam-Webster? Some woke billionaire?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
As someone who studies the english language, No ❤️
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Wow so you have no heart? Figures, person who can’t use english the way I have arbitrarily decided it should be used based on other the word farts of people who are suffocatingly similar in lack of imagination to me.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
English as does every other language evolve with use. Words mean whatever we decide they do. If zoomers decided that skibidi means cool or awesome than it means cool or awesome. If that weren’t the case then the following text: “Eall folc weorþaþ frēo and efne bē āre and rihtum ġeboren. Ġerād and inġehyġd sind heom ġifeþu, and hīe þurfon tō ōþrum ōn fēore brōþorsċipes dōn.” would be perfectly understood by any English speaker.