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Haha yeah that’s often what happens, a useful slang expression becomes so widespread that eventually they accept it in formal context. I joke that, given enoug
by SilasX 3y ago
Haha yeah that’s often what happens, a useful slang expression becomes so widespread that eventually they accept it in formal context.
I joke that, given enough time, the “English future tense” they teach will be “to be gonna”.
- aaomidi 3y agoLanguage evolution is honestly great. There's a lot of pearl clutching that happens about it, and policing around what's "ok" English or whatever. But yeah, evolution of language is beautiful IMHO.
- SilasX 3y agoAlways?
- trimethylpurine 3y ago>IMHO As opposed to your dishonest opinion?
- trimethylpurine 3y agoI'm sad that you took offense and downvoted. I guess you didn't read the first comment? It was meant as a joke on the absurdity of asking what it's opposed to. >I accidentally wrote “IRL”, he quipped, “What? As opposed to us meeting ‘in fake life’?”