• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    language is made up and nobody is an authority

    idk how you can downvote something that is trivially true. techbros lmao, language isn’t lilke programming languages

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        9 months ago

        false.

        There are not rules there are conventions. And they are arbitrary in that they are determined arbitrarily through conventions. Consider heavy slang, accents, connotations and of course uertlty bzirrae siht lkie tihs rnamiineg eretliny ilbilliegtne. So mcuh for the rlues of slilenpg!

        .noitanalpxe orez etipsed ,siht daer ot elba eb neve thgim uoy