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  • The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme

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  • Everyone on here is an insufferable twat.

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    Mother Knows Best

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  • cringe

  • my dreams in colour

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  • That's more of a gamble.

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  • Yes, that's a reasonable take.

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  • 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.

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  • Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on "correct" grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn't be stable enough to be usable. There's no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that's just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.

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  • I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.

  • Which Shampoos From Europe Do You Use?

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  • i'm bald

  • my dreams in colour

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  • I prefer thin Asian women.

  • Why am I like this?

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  • she cute

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  • YOU ARE WORSE FOR SAYING OOOF LIKE THAT

    but also correct

  • "Americans can't coo-"

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  • How do I get them done right? I'd love a new recipe for collard greens, total cabbage head here, my head is made of cabbage.

  • ‘American Pie’ actress says she was detained by ICE while trying to renew her work visa: ‘I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane’

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  • Some people were born in 1988, also.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Yes I think that's probably enough now.

  • Dunning-Kruger

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  • I was trolling/being facetious. I don't live in the USA. But I can't pursue a PhD because it amounts to below minimum wage.

  • Dunning-Kruger

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  • you're a mammal though right

  • Dunning-Kruger

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  • classism

  • AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

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  • Kind of.

  • Trickflation

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  • "shitflation"