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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

name one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's literally one in the topic of this post. And don't tell me you haven't dealt with crazy randos on Reddit that rake the same stance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've seen descriptivists take the position that if enough people use a made up word it counts as communication, but the only people I've ever seen saying "well I'm gonna call a tree a xopo instead" are prescriptivists who don't understand descriptivism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You got trolled bro