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> Incorrect based on what standard? What standard for language correctness exists besides consensus? Incorrect based on the definition of the word/phrase. Just
by anjc 10y ago
> Incorrect based on what standard? What standard for language correctness exists besides consensus?
Incorrect based on the definition of the word/phrase. Just because most Americans say "I could care less", for example, doesn't mean it's being used/said correctly, and saying that it's ok because language is fluid doesn't get around the fact that it is incorrect.
- umanwizard 10y ago> Incorrect based on the definition of the word/phrase. You are missing my point. WHAT definition? Where does it come from? Says who? (By the way, if we're going to trust definitions, Google's lists the definition of "beg the question" that you are advocating for only third. https://imgur.com/a/zh6bJ https://imgur.com/a/zh6bJ )
- EdHominem 10y ago> > "I couldn't care less" > WHAT definition? Where does it come from? Says who? The literal meaning of the words. If you couldn't care less, your caring is at zero. If you could care less you must currently care more than zero. But that's not even really our point... Rather than playing this silly game where you declare the majority view (Yay 51%) correct, why not just avoid things that people use incorrectly? Why go our of your way to join them? Most everyone who'd use the incorrect form would understand the correct form, so you're not even making yourself more understandable to them. Why are you so fixated on "Begs the Question" that you don't use any other combination of words from the entire language to describe that phenomenon? The odds that you independently arrived at this phrase are infinitesimal.