• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Nobody made english, nor is a language static. It is an everchanging result of millions of people using and evolving it.

    A language that doesn’t change is dead, like latin is. So any rule of how something is supposed to be in a language is subject to time and place, but never absolute.

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      That’s my point. If everyone pronounces a word a certain way, THAT is its correct pronunciation. The first person to say a thing doesn’t get to tell everyone else they’re wrong.

      Everyone started using the word “literally” to mean figuratively, so the official definition changed to mean either or.

      Everyone says GIF similar to gift, then that’s the proper pronunciation. Creator has no say.