• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    624·
    16 hours ago

    people don’t understand how lexicons work. imagine thinking the dictionary gets to decide what is and isn’t a word… go blork yourselves

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      191·
      15 hours ago

      If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn’t real.

      If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

      Brian doesn’t have a leg to stand on for either side.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
      211·
      16 hours ago

      Except precedented is definitely a word that is used, particularly in the legal field, so the dictionary would definitely win that argument.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 hours ago

        A couple of decades in the future the addition of “Presidented” to American English (verb: to arbitrarily make a declaration or issue an order, implicitly illegally) will really confuse things