• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Culture War aside, that’s not how language works. You have as much understanding to the history of language as you have basic dignity to other human beings.

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      But… you can change all of those things, adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, you can change all of them by changing your behaviour and characteristics… You can’t even get your own stupid arguments to be correct.

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      You don’t get to change your adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, etc.

      Says who? You? Are you the arbiter of language?

      I’ll call you Mrs. I’ll call you Mr. But the rest, nuh uh.

      Really? Not even Ms.? Because I imagine a lot of younger women would feel pretty insulted by you calling them Mrs.

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      Bold take, here on Lemmy. Let’s see how it goes for them

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      7 months ago

      nuh uh.

      Newfangled terminology

      Thoughts on prescribing use of the OG word only?

      You don’t get to change your adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, etc.

      True, not in repressive societies. And look, I have limits, I’ll be hard pressed to refer to someone as squirrelkinlifragilisticexpialidocious every time. But you’d made a reasonable accommodation in polite company I figure?