Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area
by dahart on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:39PM
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> Let’s see those lexicographers at least exercise some editorial warnings
They did. There are notes on the definition that are also pointed out in the article I sent you.
> but dictionaries are/were also issued/prescribed to students for usage guidance
Sure, yeah, as a reference. I don’t follow, why does using dictionaries imply that lexicographers should not document history without judgement? Notes like ‘archaic’ and ‘vulgar’ are not judgements the lexicographers invented, right? Those are historical facts that are widely agreed upon by society before the dictionary writes about it.
What exactly is the “dump” you think Merriam-Webster left on English? I’m trying to understand your point, but not seeing it.
That might be the situation for the OED (and I owned a copy of the Compact Edition, so you might believe I might be sympathetic), but dictionaries are/were also issued/prescribed to students for usage guidance, long before we heard of particular venues' style guides. We'd see term senses declared by the dictionary to be "archaic", "slang", "vulgar", etc.
Let's see those lexicographers at least exercise some editorial warnings about the most egregious evolving senses.
Also, I'd like to see some official attribution of blame to Rob Lowe, for this particular episode of the destruction of language, as part of general decline and fall of civilization.
Sprinkle emoticons throughout this thread.