• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.

    What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.

    The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.