phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-squaremessage-square300fedilinkarrow-up12.28Karrow-down1137
arrow-up12.14Karrow-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?" buttonphaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square300fedilink
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down7·1 year agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarenuez_jr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year 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-squarePyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down6·1 year agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·1 year agoWhy do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year 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-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·1 year agoUsing America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agothe argument is about america??
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYou mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOK so I still think it’s wrong
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAnd the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoBut at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
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.
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.
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??
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
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂