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PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue" (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 28 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Can I sell my digital copy to someone else? Or borrow it to them?

You keep making it different, asshole.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

    Lend

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (15 children)

    I'd borrow you one of my fucks, but I don't have any.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

    I give you knowledge for free, broke ass

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  • [+] -9 points 2 weeks ago* (13 children)

    These days "borrow" can mean "lend" because it all comes down to common usage. Dictionary writers are historians of language, not arbiters of it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    I've only ever heard people who have English as a second or third language mix them up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    That's not true at all in my experience, almost everyone uses them interchangeably. Although many also do correct people on it.

    It's like saying that guy and me, it is improper, it's that guy and I. But no one follows the rule anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    fwiw I've never heard someone say that they can borrow someone something before. Might be a regional thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Huh, really? I am in the upper midwest, and I grew up in the country, that had a relatively good public school, and it was commonly misapplies as such.

    Not like those that say they don't know nothing when they mean they don't know anything, that is so common in the cities there is no point in trying to correct them. You know what I'm saying?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Funny, I'm on the eastern side of the upper Midwest, grew up suburban/rural. The phrasing reminds me of using "learn" in place of "teach", which I'm familiar with the concept of but haven't heard used unironically.

    Edit: I've been saying sentences with "borrow me [thing]" out loud and it's possible that I just haven't registered folks using it, rather than having never heard it. It sounds off but not alien.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I'm not the person you were responding to, but I have also never heard anyone other than a child that made a mistake say borrow instead of lend. I'm not saying it isn't a thing, but maybe it isn't as widespread as you believe it to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Here's a few relatively modern examples to illustrate my point:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nimrod

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/random

    It doesn't matter if you agree with it, it comes down to common usage.

    Here's a nice list and explanation of how English is a living language:

    https://wordopedia.org/words-that-changed-meaning

    But go ahead and down vote me over dictionary squabbles. I'll just call you a fool* for arguing.

    *(one with a marked propensity or fondness for something)

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