yep. and also use of "literally" as an exaggeration goes back a long long way...
-
-
-
also "they" as a singular gender neutral pronoun.
-
yep. genuinely solves a problem! If you don't already: Lexicon Valley podcast!
-
I do not, and great tip!
-
I've only ever disliked one word change: notorious coming to mean "famous for a good reason". Too confusing!
-
that's fair. I think you can have preferences (biased or not) and also see that most of prescriptivist is bs.
-
I try to think a lot about why it bothers me so much given how much I've rejected the prescriptivist POV.
-
I think it's because of how often I'm reading "The notorious political operative ..." and it takes like 5 reads to figure it out.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Except that's not actually ironic.

-
it's at odds with expectations ;)
-
It's at odds with expectations that she'd call something ironic and be correct?

-
it's at odds with expectations that "ironic" is actually "ironic"! It's already "well known" to be "obviously unironic"

-
yeah, it's at odds with expectations if you read all the hot takes about it poking fun at Alanis over the last 10 years
-
Ok I guess I've known the definition of "irony" for 20 yrs.
-
It was 20yrs ago btw.

- End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
next you're gonna tell me that Frankenstein is the monster's name
-
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
