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Pollik

@Pollik

as someone who studies linguistics, i will never not laugh when someone says "that word doesn't exist" like, my good bitch. if a word is regularly used by a certain amount of people then it exists. if it has its own grammatical rules then its perfectly valid. it's part of their lexicon now, sweetie. "It's a made up word" honey, all words are made up. Linguists didn't just fucking excavate athens and were like BEHOLD!!! VOCABULARY!! "that word isn't in the dictionary" dictionaries are not rule books, they're record books. "Refrigerate" didn't exist 200 years ago and yet here we are. a language that doesn't adapt to an ever changing society is bound to be lost because, eventually, it won't be able to keep up with social progress. you motherfuckers.

05:35 AM - Apr 04, 2023

Dave

@opusworks

In response to Pollik.

Reminds me of when we would play Scrabble with a friend’s grandmother, who we named “cheating grandma.” House rules dictated that the only words that could be counted had to be found in her dog-eared Merriam-Webster Dictionary that had been in her possession since 1946.

12:46 PM - Apr 04, 2023

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