@phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up11.56Karrow-down1106
arrow-up11.45Karrow-down1message-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button@phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-square@Scrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilink16•2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarePyrolinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish-1•2 years agoWhy do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•2 years agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoUsing America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoYou mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAnd the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
the argument is about america??
You mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
And the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
Webster wouldn’t have cared
OK so I still think it’s wrong
Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂