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samrus
318 days ago
This is elitist. Language is descriptive not prescriptive
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khedoros1
318 days ago
It's a throw-away line in a movie. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
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xboxnolifes
318 days ago
And yet we have multiple languages. So, at some point English must stop being English.
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reilly3000
318 days ago
But must we apply judgment to such boundaries? If it ceases to be English is it ‘good’ again?
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xboxnolifes
318 days ago
Must judgement be applied when categorizing? Yes, because categorization
is
judgement.
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