@phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-square294fedilinkarrow-up12.34Karrow-down1144
arrow-up12.2Karrow-down1message-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button@phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square294fedilink
minus-square@Scrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilink22•2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-square@nuez_jr@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•2 years agoIt’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish-1•2 years agoWhy do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•2 years agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-square@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish-2•2 years agoUsing America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoYou mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
minus-squareSpliffman1linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAnd the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
minus-squarePyrolinkfedilinkEnglish-1•2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-square@aidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
the argument is about america??
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
You mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
OK so I still think it’s wrong
Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
And the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
Webster wouldn’t have cared
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.