Reed on nostr

Open in Damus

@Reed 1762171444

GM nostr ☕ PV 💜

They are inflating the language. Kids are too lazy to learn the existing language so they just make shit up and the powers that be give them a gold star and add their made up nonsense to the dictionary.

They want us to misunderstand each other, they want to divide us with language barriers. It's going to get worse.

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/hard-pass-cold-brew-dad-bod-merriam-webster-adds-over-5000-words-to-collegiate-dictionary/

6❤️4👀1

average_bitcoiner · 19w

RobOK 🔸 · 19w

I know all of these but the first Petrichor, by the way, is a pleasant odor after a rainfall following a warm, dry period. Teraflop is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer. Dumbphones are just that, mobile devices we used before the smartphone revolution. And ghost kitchens, wh...

Gm I noticed the online dictionaries have been adding bs words for decades now, but unfortunately, that's how language progresses. Otherwise, we'd still be calling each other "thee" and "thou", lol. The thing I hate is when they consider misspellings as correct alternatives 🙄

Nah. Languages are alive and grow. That is just the way human culture is. People have always developed their own dialect and vernaculars. It’s a feature not a bug.