No. But my step father did.
But this is the same guy that pronounced “gazebo” zebagabo and would tell me, “Use your head instead of a hat rack.”
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But this is the same guy that pronounced “gazebo” zebagabo and would tell me, “Use your head instead of a hat rack.”
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I’ve seen that before, from what I recall. I’ve also seen folx. A prof of mine had used it. Apparently, folks is not gender neutral. Friggin’ wyte people these days!
Yinz watch them jaggerbushes!
Jedster
Flying through space
and there's thisI’ve seen that before, from what I recall. I’ve also seen folx. A prof of mine had used it. Apparently, folks is not gender neutral. Friggin’ wyte people these days!
Yinz watch them jaggerbushes!
ze
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a personal pronoun sometimes used instead of "he" or "she" because it does not show a particular gender:
HonestJoe
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The same thing that has always happened with language. If it didn't change like this, we wouldn't even be communicating in English right now.
I suppose I was just hopeful it would evolve to bring new words to new discoveries or concepts, not take what was once considered bad grammar and make it correct.
For yous that think this is modernizing or evolving the English language, do you consider this a move in the right direction?
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PoetPhilosopher
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Kind of, but something @Revoltingest said really resonated with me, too.
He said somewhere on the forum today, "We live in a post-Dictionary age."
That being said....
What I'm saying is that we can't blame the Dictionary for adopting our new words. The burden is on us to use more professional words that get recorded by Dictionaries.
It evolves.
Kinda ties into @The Hammer’s education thread. I’m too lazy to find a link to atm.
We Never Know
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The post-dictionary age is about definitions
being changed ad hoc, rather than evolving
in common usage.
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I will leave those to you lol
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Isn't that the official language of Revoltingstan?
Evolution...the change in the language...is neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, it's just what language does.
Back around the year 1600, the UK was striving to break the power of Spain and create an Empire. The educated recognized that in order to administer an English-speaking empire, it was going to be necessary to have rules imposed on a "language" that was the forced marriage of several different languages and language groups...old English, French, Anglo, Saxon, several Celtic dialects, old Norse, Danish, etc....
So, the Dons of Oxford and Cambridge came up with competing sets of rules to govern English as spoken and written in the Empire...rules largely derived from the dead languages of Ancient Greek and Roman Latin.
Why would they do such a thing?
Because only educated people would know the 'rules.' It would help make sure that the masses remained poor and out of positions of power, while the elites could easily tell who had learned from which school...
All the rules we learned in school have a few hundred years of tradition behind them, but if one goes and reads some 'proper English' from the mid 1700s, middle 1900s, and the present day, we can see the language evolving despite the 'rules.'
I think what's happened is the people that put together the dictionary have gotten tired of waiting for Americans to learn how to speak English and have decided it would be easier to make the dictionary conform to whatever it is we're already speaking.
It's a dialect in southern Revoltistan.
Isn’t “southern Revoltistan” the continental US?