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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

You act like humans never fuck this up either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If I start calling dogs “cats” tomorrow, am I wrong?

If your audience knows what you mean? No. If your audience has no idea what you mean? Yes.

Or have I just taken the first steps towards making my mark on the English language?

If it becomes a norm? Yes.

But what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? We were talking about literally, and how it is literally (the way you mean it) a contranym now. Using it to only mean figuratively (the way you want it to be used), especially when it had been used that way for a long time and even has a history of using is no longer "idiotic" it's just a common usage of the term. It mildly irks me too, however, I can't remember the last time I was actually confused by the intent of the speaker.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

The Bible doesn't really say anything about abortion. The most convincing thing I've seen is that it values the life of a mother over that a fetus, but it doesn't say abortion is okay. Unless I'm missing something.

Not that it matters what this book says, I just don't think it helps at all to misrepresent it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Literally is now even officially a contranym. Additionally in the process of making the decision to make it a contranym, they pointed to a number of examples of famous English authors using it as in the way these "idiots" use it.

Language evolves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

however people use it,

The way this is phrased, it sounds like you can't be wrong. So I would just clarifying that if both the speaker and audience agree on the intent of the speaker, it's correct.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm sorry, I should have been clear that people getting fooled by him was not limited to conspiracy theorists. It's just who I heard it the most from where there was some conspiracy among big tech to silence dissenting opinions and he would save us from it.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Remember when all the conspiracy theorists were cheering elons take over of twitter because it meant free speech? I do. Also remember how pretty much none of them is complaining about his control of the platform now. It's almost like they never really cared about free speech in the first place, but only their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

According to the article, dow says they've seen significant productivity gains and are rolling it out to half the company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's funny how people think that the users here are substantially different than reddit users. It's the same shit, just fewer of us and the political alignment is further left.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So it's really that the user experience is getting worse. Feeding ai has nothing to do with it.

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