when someone starts insulting your grammar and typing, you know you’ve won the argument
Periods exist. /s
Yeah but some men find it uncomfortable to talk about them.
i hear nowadays, it’s considered rude to end a single sentence with a period.
Period.
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no – period
One exception, the argument is about spelling or grammar then it’s kinda invited mockery. Aside from that you’re just dealing with an ableist, dyslexia is the most common learning disability
Dyslexia is common, but people for whom english is not their first language, whose learning is still in progress. Those are even more common on the internet.
Good point, cutting down people for typos is racist and ableist
i do have a problem with intentionally mutilating words tho… like “parentification” and “enshitification”…
although the second is a little bit funny…
or when people intentionally redefine words… like racism as meaning “systemic and systematic racism as experienced by non-whites by whites in america” and as such it’s impossible to be “racist” against white people…
but it’s just stupid… racism and “systemic racism” are two different concepts…I don’t really understand your point. Portmanteaus and coining new words are useful in conveying complex concepts, though. If you wanted to have a conversation about parentification would you rather have one word to encompass that or have to say “the effect of having to be a care giver to your caregivers during your formative years” every time you need to reference that concept in the discussion.
What makes that a mutilation instead of more efficient?
The racism thing is confusing because racism encompasses both forms but there are specific descriptors for unique expressions of the same thing. Just like a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t necessarily a square. That’s not really redefining, systemic racism has been racism the whole time, too. We’re just aware enough to have discussions about the specific ways it effects society today.
Edit: redefining “literally” to accommodate people using incorrectly on the other hand was a misstep for the English language, though. So I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think you picked bad examples.
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Why are we setting berd on fire now?
there was a landmine around the corner. had to be done.
It’s just…so very racist. 1950’s Kentucky racist.
I was on the web page for Pokémon Go today and there’s some valentines event that they called “Palentine’s day” and I read through it twice before I realized it didn’t say Palestine every time. I feel like they probably had to turn autocorrect off for that one.
It gets funnier when you realize Berd made a video about exactly how the Internet responds to typos in arguments:
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Let’s be fair, your argument was already an inferno.
Argumentum ad populum. Just because my arguments aren’t popular, doesn’t mean they’re not logically true.