• Gabu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All of this could be solved if English weren’t a shit language with incoherent phonemes.

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      1 year ago

      All this could be solved if people would accept that English changes over time and if defined by usage and understanding.

      If people easily understand what I mean when I say gif then I have pronounced it correctly. Same as if people understand what I mean if I use “literally” to mean “figuratively” or spell “island” with an ‘s’ despite it having no Latin roots.

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          1 year ago

          If it impedes understanding and causes to person you’re talking to take more time and/or effort to understand the message you are trying to convey then it is incorrect.

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            1 year ago

            So r u saying that writing “are” and “you” that way is correct? Because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t impede understanding in the slightest.