• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    15 days ago

    How about we stop policing the pronunciation and use of specific words as a way to feel like we have control over the lack of effective communication elsewhere in our lives?

    If it works to get the listener to know what you are talking about? Then what is the issue?

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        15 days ago

        You want an answer for you to judge me by?

        Don’t care for the argument just what group I belong to, so you can tell if I’m right or wrong already. Lazy.

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      15 days ago

      My problem is that we already have a word jiff, meaning a short amount of time. The overlap in use is minimal, but why add ambiguity.

      And don’t get me started on to, too, and two.

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        15 days ago

        Their, there, they’re.
        Its ok that you can’t tell those words apart.

        But also don’t ask people to not do what you can’t understand? Or do people in wheelchairs boo at the Olympics?