phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-squaremessage-square258fedilinkarrow-up12.33Karrow-down1141
arrow-up12.18Karrow-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?" buttonphaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square258fedilink
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minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year 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-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agothe argument is about america??
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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).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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the argument is about america??