We live in the dumbest times.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    If there’s one thing I know about English majors, it’s that they enjoy all words jokes.

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      9 days ago

      We’re also the least fussy about language use, which is why the highly upvoted prescritivist pedantry I run across around lemmy occasionally is so jarring

      ed: not talking about your comment here

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        9 days ago

        *prescriptivist

        It’s a joke, entirely about the pedantry you aptly observe.