this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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i agree, but this is linguistic prescriptivism. words change meaning whether u like it or not.
It’s a joke an the futility of linguistic prescriptivism. I might not have represented it well but the whole punchline is that this ship has sailed long ago.
oh ok :)