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| ParanoidObsessive 11/28/18 2:25:37 AM #27: | StoneRevolver posted... FatalAccident posted...Its like arguing when Americans say I could care less instead of I couldnt care less. It kind of started out as sarcastic contrast, but sort of just mutated into idiom. Either way, the people who throw tantrums about it are kind of just being pedantic dicks. Do you also correct people when they talk about letting cats out of bags or being hoist by your own petard and point out that there aren't any cats or that no one's used a petard for centuries and almost no one knows what the hell it is anymore anyway? It's very much like people using literally to mean figuratively - that ship sailed before any of us on this board were born, and it's not coming back no matter how loudly Grammar Nazis on the Internet scream about it. Nor does anyone give a fuck that people use the word "irony" to mean things that aren't strictly "ironic" by the original definition of the term. Language mutates, and words and phrases take on new connotations via social contract. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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