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Couple also literally (figuratively) means some small plural number, because a couple people (at least a few, several… many even) use it that way. It’s an under
by eyelidlessness 3y ago
Couple also literally (figuratively) means some small plural number, because a couple people (at least a few, several… many even) use it that way. It’s an understandable mistake in understanding, as the word has a couple meanings.
- satvikpendem 3y agoFortunately, I'm a prescriptivist, not a descriptivist, at least until it doesn't make sense to be anymore, if the language changes so much in the future. No one is still a prescriptivist for Old English, for example.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoFortunately you’re a descriptivist, unfortunately you’re stubborn about it ;)
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow so? You'd be the descriptivist in this scenario, no?
- stavros 3y agoThe joke is that everyone is a descriptivist, since language changes whether you want to or not. That joke ignores the fact that I will use the language exactly as I learnt it, when it was objectively perfect, and not a moment before or after.
- satvikpendem 3y agoYeah, that's what I was also implying, haha.