Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by soulofmischief on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:16PM
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I agree and I'm glad I was corrected.
I think we lost the plot once "unloosen" and "loosen" started meaning the same thing: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/unloosen
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by nothrabannosir on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:13PM
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(for the record it's all inconsequential pedantry and in good cheer :) thanks for being a good sport)
Don't get me started on "try and"
Try and get started :D
"Idiomatic" is idiomatic usage for "wrong".
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by sunshowers on Sunday April 20, 2025 @07:12AM
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What? In this context, idiomatic just means the kinds of expressions that native speakers would use. (The term also applies to programming languages.)
By definition, native speakers aren't wrong. If your model doesn't match observed reality, it is the model that's at issue, not reality.
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by dredmorbius on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:30PM
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We can take the horse that's fled the now-closed barn door to water, but can we make it think?
Could care less has indeed left the barn by now and I could care less (as you can tell) but mixing up understate and overstate? I hope we’re in time to stop this horse.