Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
by lolinder on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:13PM
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I'm fine with people being careful in their usage in contexts where precision matters. I even agree that Wikipedia is probably one of those places.
It's the weird value judgements that people like the author assign to different usages that really bother me. Objectively, "comprises of" is correct usage. It's the majority usage in books published today, and it's in all the dictionaries.
If TFA had left it at "it's ambiguous" I wouldn't blink, but they had to go off on a rant about how wrong the modern usage is, and that's a problem. It feels elitist and reactionary.
It's the weird value judgements that people like the author assign to different usages that really bother me. Objectively, "comprises of" is correct usage. It's the majority usage in books published today, and it's in all the dictionaries.
If TFA had left it at "it's ambiguous" I wouldn't blink, but they had to go off on a rant about how wrong the modern usage is, and that's a problem. It feels elitist and reactionary.