▲ 486 ▼ Sums it up quite precisely (lemmy.world) submitted 1 week ago by desmosthenes@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world 66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] zoloftt@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (2 children) Literally, yes permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 week ago (1 child) That would mean the concept of "literality" no longer exists, but you just used it, (I'm taking your words literally, to mean that you believe "literal" now means "figurative" in perpetuity) so it must still exist. I also just used it, so even if you meant "literally" figuratively, the literal definition still exists, because I just used it. You see why we can't just say "oh welp words change" now? They do but also if nothing has meaning just stop speaking languages at this point because they're, well, meaningless. Hell I'll give you another popular example, you ever watched South Park? You remember the biker episode? They argue the same thing you do here, that words change meaning, but about a different word (and with a better case for it, no less). You wanna defend the evolved use of that word publicly here right now? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zoloftt@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago My god, I was being facetious in that last comment. I was merely highlighting that your frustration was not going to change the course of people's use of language. I'm not arguing that definitions are meaningless. Chill. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 week ago (1 child) That would mean the concept of "literality" no longer exists, but you just used it, (I'm taking your words literally, to mean that you believe "literal" now means "figurative" in perpetuity) so it must still exist. I also just used it, so even if you meant "literally" figuratively, the literal definition still exists, because I just used it. You see why we can't just say "oh welp words change" now? They do but also if nothing has meaning just stop speaking languages at this point because they're, well, meaningless. Hell I'll give you another popular example, you ever watched South Park? You remember the biker episode? They argue the same thing you do here, that words change meaning, but about a different word (and with a better case for it, no less). You wanna defend the evolved use of that word publicly here right now? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zoloftt@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago My god, I was being facetious in that last comment. I was merely highlighting that your frustration was not going to change the course of people's use of language. I'm not arguing that definitions are meaningless. Chill. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zoloftt@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago My god, I was being facetious in that last comment. I was merely highlighting that your frustration was not going to change the course of people's use of language. I'm not arguing that definitions are meaningless. Chill. permalink fedilink source parent