@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-square285fedilinkarrow-up12.14Karrow-down1121
arrow-up12.02Karrow-down1message-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square285fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarePyrolinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoIt’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•2 years agoBecause language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language