You sound like the type of person who defends the misspellings of words until it becomes accepted in dictionaries, so we no longer have a word to distinguish dirt from ice cream.

[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I'm the type of person who knows interesting trivia and backs it up with sources when called out by people who are too lazy to do a basic search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy)

[–] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

When you see the word "desert," do you automatically think of a sweet delicious treat? Or a barren wasteland of sand? Or do you go into a moment of mental gymnastics to determine the context and whether or not the writer gives a fuck about proper spelling?