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Most people are still on step 1 (learning what the individual words mean). They don't get to the stage of learning how the different words fit together.
by HPsquared 3y ago
Most people are still on step 1 (learning what the individual words mean). They don't get to the stage of learning how the different words fit together.
- atian 3y agoI put quotes around words to differentiate when I’m using them incorrectly but popularly. By definition the goalpost has also been shifted.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoY'all are insufferable good lord. People know how the words fit together. Everyone speaks fine. Not everyone needs to be a big gas etymology nerd about it and in fact nerdly insistence on what a word "actually" means contra its everyday use is an extremely common error. One that wouldn't be made by someone with even the slightest interest in the domain of linguistics, rather than just feeling smarter than people.