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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It doesn't change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That's how language works.

Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was "awful", as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word's changed to be a synonym for "figuratively" among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.

These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. Sorry friend, you're not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Whatever you say, Sithik!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Both are correct. Language changes.

Do you say *newb when correcting people that spell it noob because the origin of the word is newbie?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well tbf, in some cases, factually incorrect memes are a way to quickly spread misinformation and can definitely be bad for that reason.

I think the original commenter was at least somewhat joking in this particular instance, though. "How can we trust you?" seems like an odd thing to seriously ask a shitposter. I could be wrong, tone is hard to read online.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not just that. Through radiometric dating, we have evidence of several billion years worth of nuclear decay. Nuclear decay is constantly releasing heat. It's a completely negligible amount of heat, but if you try cramming all 4.5 billion years worth of it into the single year-long event like creationists want to, it becomes a massive issue. Not to mention the other sources of heat like the water falling down as you brought up, the movement of continents, all the impact events, among other things. We're talking enough heat here to completely vaporize the oceans several hundred times over.

You think Noah had AC on the boat?

Edit: I forgot to mention the reason they need to shove all the heat into a 1-year event, rather than the 6,000-ish years they believe the Earth has been around for (not that it would be much better that way around). As the evidence of billions of years worth of nuclear decay is undeniable, Young Earth Creationists need some event to rapidly accelerate the decay by a factor of at least several hundred thousand times. And many of them say the flood caused it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Eh, its just a community of people having fun and being themselves. I also think it's weird, but it's harmless, so who cares? I don't have the self esteem to be so open about something that society at large finds weird af, so honestly, good for them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In that persons comment, they removed several "silent" e's, but all but one changed the word's pronunciation. I was talking about them. Like the E in hate. It doesn't make a sound itself, so isn't it still silent?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (13 children)

I don't mind silent e's, they do actually change the way words are pronounced at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Bro gives edge lord a whole different meaning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (24 children)

Did you even read what I said? I agree with you there. But technically, and I'm only bringing this up because ~~you~~ the original commenter* originally did, it is an accusation.

*Edit: I thought you were the same person, but my point still stands.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (29 children)

This particular case is, technically, an accusation, though. Even if we're all just about certain that it's true.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

"[It] sucks they're banning..."

Probably autocorrect or something like that, it's not that hard to figure out.

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