Yes, the more notable thing is that, for some reason, the British decided the practice should end.

My girlfriend’s ex is e-stalking her, if that’s a thing. I said she should send him a picture of my cock if he contacts her again. I believe that may have actually happened a couple of days ago. Let’s see if it works.

Yes, that’s a reasonable take.

I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.

What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.

The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.

Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on “correct” grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn’t be stable enough to be usable. There’s no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that’s just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.

I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.

YOU ARE WORSE FOR SAYING OOOF LIKE THAT

but also correct

Some people were born in 1988, also.

Kind of.

“shitflation”

he look silly

Holy shit that guy’s so Polish.

wow great content

I’m happy to stop buying American but have no idea if it would make any difference, or even have the desired effect.

How’d that go then.

what’s wrong with her face

yes, reality has a dystopian bias

Yes, that’s probably true. I assume somebody is still making good music, but it doesn’t seem to be reaching me.

They certainly did.

K-Pop is for eight-year-olds. It absolutely seems like a joke the first time you see it.