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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Every time I see it spelled that way, I die a little.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Remember that, unlike French and its steering organization, English is a "usage dictates form" kind of setup where the most popular usage drags the language down after it.

That's why people pluralize mass nouns and say things like "emails" as a noun, or join words to get "startup" as a verb, or say "literally" as if they know no other adverbs: someone popular said it like that and everyone is cloning that dialect glitch. They're making "fetch" happen.

So let's all do the needful, action that ask and synergize the spend.

Or we say no. We ridicule the people yammering like misfit kids of drunkard used-car salesmen, and we correct them, and we only address the content when the errors are fixed. Set the bar for discourse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Slt, d'acc boomer

Guess you've never seen people text in french.

mdr A+

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