Comment on [deleted]

• hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just because you understand someone well enough to correct them doesn’t mean everyone else will

  Then they should ask for clarification.

  Just because you understand them well enough today doesn’t mean you will tomorrow

  At which point you can ask for clarification.

  We should all be striving to be better than we are, not breeding resentment from contentment

  And part of “better” is having the perspective and desire to avoid pedantry where it’s not needed.

  source

  • Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’re clearly not going to agree here. Plenty of people would rather be made aware of their mistakes and that’s no less valid than your point of view. Personally I would rather avoid potential misunderstandings than deal with them after the fact. I’m not the only one who feels that way.

    source
• JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just because … doesn’t mean …

  I hate this extragrammatical idiom so much.

  But given that colloquial usage trumps all else when it comes to driving the evolution of language, most people could care less.

  source

  • Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting choice given the way that’s been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.

    If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would’ve been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it’s hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor

    source