phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 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-squaremessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up11.65Karrow-down193
arrow-up11.55Karrow-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?" buttonphaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square223fedilink
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down6·2 years agoEspecially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarenuez_jr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 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-squarePyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·2 years agoFor any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 years agoThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·2 years agoWhy do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 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-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-squareSpliffman1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoUsing America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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.
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
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.
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣