@chaosprime who has been using it to mean "common error"? Because ... No. It's, like, the opposite of that.
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@XaiaX Ch*rlie Str*ss. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/12/fantasy-shibboleths.html … (obscuring his name because i heart him and don't want him to hate me) -
@chaosprime I can kinda see how you would think it means an error given the biblical usage to find foreigners and kill them, but, no. -
@XaiaX it's a context-inferred usage coming from hearing people talk about the shibboleths of one group or another & only catching the tone -
@XaiaX honestly the usage probably has at least as much currency as the use of "literally" to mean "figuratively" -
@XaiaX but i'm only a descriptivist when i don't identify a usage as arising from stark incomprehension -
@chaosprime I'm a descriptivist. Sometimes I just describe things as being wrong. ;) -
@XaiaX hey man i'm hip i don't even object to describing one thing as "more perfect" than another - 3 more replies
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