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[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you'd lose points on papers for spelling "doughnut" as "donut", but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.

We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Heehee concidered and shear. You literally made me go back and spellcheck your whole comment in case I'd missed more.

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have never been a good speller, and this app nor my phones keyboard do spellchecking.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn't catch "shear" anyway, that's the cutting one.

The see-through one has ee.

Why "sheer" is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don't know.

English.

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