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minus-squareTimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down28·edit-223 hours agopeople don’t understand how lexicons work. imagine thinking the dictionary gets to decide what is and isn’t a word… go blork yourselves
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·22 hours agoIf 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.
minus-squareOrgunDonor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·21 hours agoI mean, I am going to presume he has two legs to stand on.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·22 hours agoExcept precedented is definitely a word that is used, particularly in the legal field, so the dictionary would definitely win that argument.
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 hours agoA 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
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoThat’s Presidential vs Unpresidential
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 hours agoImagine thinking Brian Tarbell Brian gets to decide
people don’t understand how lexicons work. imagine thinking the dictionary gets to decide what is and isn’t a word… go blork yourselves
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.
I mean, I am going to presume he has two legs to stand on.
Not anymore!
OrgunDonor.
Except precedented is definitely a word that is used, particularly in the legal field, so the dictionary would definitely win that argument.
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
That’s Presidential vs Unpresidential
Imagine thinking Brian Tarbell Brian gets to decide