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-square308fedilinkarrow-up12.36Karrow-down1142
arrow-up12.22Karrow-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-square308fedilink
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 agoBut at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
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
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??
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