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by forgotmyinfo 811 days ago
Unfortunately, language is fluid and changing. You can try to hang on by your fingernails, or you can go with the flow.
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card_zero 811 days ago
Or fight back! Sometimes successfully. Popular usage is not immune to deliberate attempts to change (or freeze) the language. Prescriptivism is thus a subset of descriptivism.
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Electricniko 810 days ago
You factist!
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k4rli 810 days ago
Your entitled to you're own opinion. So if the majority use the language in the wrong way, language itself is the problem?
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