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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m getting the sense that correctness in language is a bit of a fool’s errand. It’s a relative term.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Yep. Language is only as good as it's ability to transfer information. English is a good language (IMHO), not because it has good rules to follow, but because it can be flexible in order to transfer new ideas. Want to steal a word from another language? Want to verb a noun? Want to create a new word by gluing two other words together? Want to add a new definition to an existing word? Yes, yes, yessir, and bet.