• darcy
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    1 year ago

    i agree, but this is linguistic prescriptivism. words change meaning whether u like it or not.

    • Kempeth@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      It’s a joke an the futility of linguistic prescriptivism. I might not have represented it well but the whole punchline is that this ship has sailed long ago.