PSA: "Shibboleth" doesn't mean "common error". It means "thing you say that signals your group affiliation". Like "SJW", or "patriarchy".
@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)
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@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 -
@XaiaX people should probably give up on that one tbh, once it made it into the US Constitution that ship pretty much sailed -
@chaosprime this seems like the basis for a good weird Twitter bit. - 1 more reply
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