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Rsawr

Smoke and Mirrors
Staff member
I know, can't help it. It is becoming the norm, as most people seem to make that particular error. I hate the fact that definitions are descriptive rather than prescriptive, so if nobody corrects it, a word will officially lose its meaning after a while. Like 'literally' is now a synonym for figuratively, so now we have to use the word actually to mean literally. What happens when the word actually loses its meaning, how are we to convey that concept?
English adapts, bruh. It's got dis.
 

Rsawr

Smoke and Mirrors
Staff member
I know, can't help it. It is becoming the norm, as most people seem to make that particular error. I hate the fact that definitions are descriptive rather than prescriptive, so if nobody corrects it, a word will officially lose its meaning after a while. Like 'literally' is now a synonym for figuratively, so now we have to use the word actually to mean literally. What happens when the word actually loses its meaning, how are we to convey that concept?
I bet you would be a killer scrabble bro. You ever wanna meet at a library and school me, I'm down, lol
 

Hook Daddy

Well-Known Member
I know, can't help it. It is becoming the norm, as most people seem to make that particular error. I hate the fact that definitions are descriptive rather than prescriptive, so if nobody corrects it, a word will officially lose its meaning after a while. Like 'literally' is now a synonym for figuratively, so now we have to use the word actually to mean literally. What happens when the word actually loses its meaning, how are we to convey that concept?
Are you sure the correct word here is not loose? A word looses its definition, thereby having a looser meaning and can mean more than one thing. Like literally, it still means literally, but also figuratively, so the definition was not lost but loosed. Who new I was so good with grammar?
 
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