It doesn’t change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That’s how language works.
Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was “awful”, as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word’s changed to be a synonym for “figuratively” among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.
These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. That’s how language works. Sorry friend, you’re not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.
It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society.
“Clique popularity”, then.
Point out the largest clique and see what they’ve done already. Witness your future to come. Hint: America’s ‘literally’ and its dog-food spelling isn’t the leader.
No, because those all mean different things. Sike and psyche mean the same thing. Nobody needs to get pedantic about the correct spelling of slang used by elementary school kids in the 80’s.
Apparently through popularity. It’s like this need for evolution isn’t checking for validity so much as “did the mean girls make a mistake that we should cover up?” .
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Both are correct. Language changes.
Do you say *newb when correcting people that spell it noob because the origin of the word is newbie?
get on my level, i correct people when they say bird to let them know it’s *bridd.
Only when that flappy birb got them double d’s
That’s different.
Anyone who says “sike” over “psych” is a sike-o, plain and simple.
No I will not elaborate further.
Whatever you say, Sithik!
It’s spelled n00b!
“language changes” does but make something magically correct.
It’s not “pasgetti”, it’s “spaghetti”.
It doesn’t change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That’s how language works.
Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was “awful”, as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word’s changed to be a synonym for “figuratively” among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.
These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. That’s how language works. Sorry friend, you’re not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.
“Clique popularity”, then.
Point out the largest clique and see what they’ve done already. Witness your future to come. Hint: America’s ‘literally’ and its dog-food spelling isn’t the leader.
Yes, but what we’re talking about is far too new and infrequent for that to have happened yet.
Does that mean that “there”, “their”, and “they’re” can be used interchangeably now? Because that is much, much more common.
No, because those all mean different things. Sike and psyche mean the same thing. Nobody needs to get pedantic about the correct spelling of slang used by elementary school kids in the 80’s.
Apparently through popularity. It’s like this need for evolution isn’t checking for validity so much as “did the mean girls make a mistake that we should cover up?” .
The French have it right.