GardenVarietyAnxiety @ GardenVarietyAnxiety @lemmy.world

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was unexpectedly great in this respect.

You can save/load virtually any time, and almost every single thing you do adds an icon to the map that you can use for fast travel. I'm really loving it!

Biden’s mean-nickname game is bullshit

This made me laugh out loud... 😝

When you're dead set on -making- your propheses come true...

It's because Epstein's island is a honeypot

</tinfoil-hat>

He's just gonna keep climbing that ladder, isn't he?

I'm upset that I laughed as much as I did at this...

wat

Have you ever known one of those people that "jokes" to say what they mean? Or does the "Haha, I'm just joking, haha... unless..?" thing.

It's cliche af at this point, but still true: When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

It looks like those house shoes/slippers that look like monster or bigfoot feet, maybe?

I feel like that's a big part of the worse

TEA COUICE CUNIZ!!

I'm sorry but we're going to have to ask you to leave.

(I feel like this might read bad... It's just a joke! ;P)

I was referring to the 2140's during the cow's rights movement.

Whoa!! Dial back the cowist language there, man. This ain't the 40's

EAT MOR BOK!

It felt a little too much like a campaign speech, in my opinion. But it wasn't bad.

Right? Dude -overcame- a speech impediment ffs.

If I were to define it off the top of my head, I'd say it means a mutually respectful argument.

That being said, your comment rang a bell: A couple weeks ago I stumbled across descriptive and prescriptive linguistics. I'd mostly forgotten about it, but it's super relevant here.

The basic idea according to descriptivists is that laguage is living and a words meaning can change based on how it's being used by native speakers as a whole. Meanwhile prescriptivists insist on rules and grammar.

Or in other words; We're both right.

I'm using the word debate as it's typically used to describe a mutually respectful discussion of differing opinions, wheras you're coming from a more by the books, black and white stance.

I found this video on Youtube that ultimately posits descriptivism works better for speech, perscriptivism works better for writing. I agree, and Social media is a little bit of both.

It's an interesting watch at around 7 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0UqZ7O7Cg

Merriam-Webster has a decent write up on it too: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/descriptive-vs-prescriptive-defining-lexicography

It does come off a bit pointed, imo, but I found that most sources unfortunately do.

That's what really throws me for a loop. There are a lot of dumb people that think he's smart, but there are also a lot of smart people that buy into it too... Is fear really that powerful? It is, I know... But damn...

Sometimes the best answers are the shortest...