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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s all well and good? I see no evidence you are listening, and some direct evidence that you are not.

  Once again, you are railing against how the English language works, and has always worked.

  ‘Literally’ means both ‘literally’ and it’s opposite ‘figuratively’. People using ‘literally’ to mean figuratively aren’t wrong to do so as long as it is understood between speaker and listener what is meant.

  I’m the current zeitgeist, it is understood in casual settings ‘nazi’ is used to mean ‘right wing authoritarian’. Get all upset if you wish, there’s a long history of people being upset about time’s effect on language, I’m sure you can remember your grandparents clutching pearls at the slang and short hand you used growing up. You don’t have to like it, English doesn’t care. Keep up, or don’t, up to you.

  All you are doing is pettifogging.

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  • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You know the old adage “you wouldn’t follow your friend of a cliff if he jumped”.

    I think i’d rather use the terms correctly, rather than follow the erronious zeitgeist.

    Just because technology has created micro universes where word change meaning faster than anyone can follow, doesn’t mean they are right.

    Or to put it more sarcastically so you have something to think about. I literally don’t care, literally.

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    • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So don’t use ‘nazi’ that way, no-one is forcing you.

      ‘Do you know the saying that movie was cool.’ You know they aren’t saying ‘the movie was a low but not freezing temperature.’

      So here’s someone complaining about the use of ‘cool’ and they say ‘I think i’d rather use the terms correctly, rather than follow the erronious zeitgeist’.

      Just imagine the scenario, some people talking about a film, someone says it’s cool, and here you come charging in with your pedantry. No-one is talking about the film anymore, because you’re arguing about the usage of the word cool. Then you go full sanctimonious and say “I think i’d rather use the terms correctly, rather than follow the erronious zeitgeist”. Is that a sufficient mirror for you.

      Just because technology has created micro universes where word change meaning faster than anyone can follow, doesn’t mean they are right.

      Faster than anyone can follow? I followed it. Everyone in this thread followed it. It only seemed to be you out of the loop. That’s fine, but you didn’t have to expose your ignorance so publicly. You’ll pick up the lingo eventually.

      Or to put it more sarcastically so you have something to think about. I literally don’t care, literally.

      But you didn’t explain how you were using each version of literally?! Thereby proving your earlier complaint “that it would render words meaningless” incorrect. If nothing else I am glad I could have taught you that much. Maybe if I was able to teach you that people don’t have to spend all their time explaining definitions, I can teach you how silly pedantry is.

      But you do care though, you obviously care.

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      • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Faster than anyone can follow? I followed it. Everyone in this thread followed it. It only seemed to be you out of the loop. That’s fine, but you didn’t have to expose your ignorance so publicly. You’ll pick up the lingo eventually.

        I find it hilarious that being correct is being ignorant. It’s ok that you’re wrong, it’s your right.

        But you do care though, you obviously care.

        Of course i do, but since it’s not clear from language that I do due to the reasons that I laid out, I understand that you’re confused. See how language is confusing when words change meaning?

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