>If you want to communicate to me then you are going to have use the accepted definition not the definition you want me to believe instead.
And by "accepted definition" you mean "definition accepted by you."
There are few personality traits I find as insufferable as language prescriptivism, it always seems to hide a rigid and doctrinaire worldview. I won't waste your time or mine further. Good night.
Not by me. By the rest of the world along with me.
Re:Zohran and the Short Link
by CursedSilicon on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:03PM
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"The rest of the world" you say to a literal thread of people explaining why you're wrong
Any other road leads to madness and an absence of shared meaning. I will hold you to the standard of your own language and actions. Use the words correctly or be misunderstood. That's on you not me.