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elilla&, travesti madam

- "he's terrible at his own language"

- "I don't speak a dialect"

- "ruining the language"

- "this word doesn't exist"

- "in this city people have no accent"

- "kanji etymology"

- "so many people are using word X *wrong*! the actual meaning is this!"

- "English is irregular"

- "primitive language"

- "drawl"

- "eliminate the passive voice from your writing"

- "German is logical/aggressive/ugly" etc., "French is romantic/sophisticated" "Japanese is mysterious" etc.

- "phonetic language"

- "L'Académie française"

- "grammar error"

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Crystale

@elilla ok I laughed at the penultimate point :')

Meena

@elilla oh, yeah, that's a very common mistake, French is a Romance language, not a romantic language

PrivateGER :owo:

@elilla@transmom.love Okay, I'll bite...

What's wrong with "phonetic language"?

The Skylark

@elilla@transmom.love wow this arbitrary sequence of sounds sure does have an intrinsic, correct meaning

WhiteShield

@elilla "skill issue"

autistic catgirl programmer

@elilla

French people, in their hubris, attempted to challenge the gods of linguistic shifts themselves.

jd [jd[jd]]

@elilla@transmom.love people can use words wrong, when it comes to incomprehensibility or things that personally annoy me like using "reactionary" to mean "someone who reacts to things"

almaember

@elilla I agree but I have to mention a few things because of course I have to. Sorry. Not trying to argue, these are kind of questions phrased as opinions. Does this make any sense?

The no prescriptivism thing can turn around to bite you because most of these words have gained secondary meanings in daily vernacular. ‘Dialect’ can refer to a dialect that is not the most common one in a given language.

I’d still say grammar errors are a thing, people just don’t understand what they are. I think when a person makes an unintentional slip up (i.e. something that they themselves think is a mistake), it could count as an error. Like if I wrote ‘on’ two times when I should’ve written it once (as in ‘he was standing on on the table’), I’d think that’s an error. But if it’s something that was done intentionally, it by definition can’t be an error, it’s just not.

And yes, I know I just pulled a ‘you’re using this word wrong’ on the word ‘error’. Or maybe not? We all agree what an error is, so I’m just saying that something that people commonly think is an error is in fact not? (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

Sorry again. First time I see anybody who cares about linguistics at all here.

@elilla I agree but I have to mention a few things because of course I have to. Sorry. Not trying to argue, these are kind of questions phrased as opinions. Does this make any sense?

The no prescriptivism thing can turn around to bite you because most of these words have gained secondary meanings in daily vernacular. ‘Dialect’ can refer to a dialect that is not the most common one in a given language.

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