PSA: "Shibboleth" doesn't mean "common error". It means "thing you say that signals your group affiliation". Like "SJW", or "patriarchy".
@XaiaX honestly the usage probably has at least as much currency as the use of "literally" to mean "figuratively"
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@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. -
@XaiaX "i don't pay taxes because the US federal government has no authority because the Constitution's grammar errors invalidate it" yessss
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@chaosprime using "literally" to mean "figuratively" is at least a hundred years old, though. And the same as using "really" to mean "very". -
@XaiaX well it can't be the same because one is clearly just fine and the other is wrong and bad (except ironically)
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