• huginn@feddit.it
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    7 months ago

    And literally literally means figuratively.

    A teaching my advanced linguistic classes drilled into me is “l’uso fa legge”.

    Or, translated, usage makes the rules.

    No language is logical, and consensus is how language is derived.

    Pedantry is never ingratiating.