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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations on learning that words have no intrinsic meaning, and the dictionary is constantly changing. Prescriptive linguistics is a hopeless battle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Found the descriptive linguist