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alt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled “I don’t believe in prescriptivism” and “‘Literally’ cannot mean ‘figuratively’”. A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger’s owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.

  • Classy
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    10 months ago

    This is why English is such a linguistically fucked language now lol

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      10 months ago

      How is English any more or less linguistically fucked than any other natural language?