PSA: "Shibboleth" doesn't mean "common error". It means "thing you say that signals your group affiliation". Like "SJW", or "patriarchy".
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime who has been using it to mean "common error"? Because ... No. It's, like, the opposite of that.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @XaiaX
@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)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@XaiaX honestly the usage probably has at least as much currency as the use of "literally" to mean "figuratively"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@XaiaX but i'm only a descriptivist when i don't identify a usage as arising from stark incomprehension1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime I'm a descriptivist. Sometimes I just describe things as being wrong. ;)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime it's somehow different when you know you're breaking THE RULES, though. I am a fan of disregular English.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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