So what’s your stance on AAVE? Or ASL? Or even just regional dialects where the fizzy drink is called pop versus soda? What is your one guiding light on how English is supposed to be, and who adheres to it?
Language is evolving doesn’t absolve you from misusing someone’s name. I get that some names get a commonly used shortcut, like Robert becomes Bob, but would you keep calling Robert Bob, even if Robert had asked you not to? Would you insist on using Bob, in the name of linguistic evolution?
Here’s the great thing about toys: they can’t ask me to call them anything. I can get a Buzz Lightyear doll and call it Woody. I can build a Millennium Falcon out of plastic blocks and call it the Serenity. Since they are toys I own and not sentient beings, I am not offending them.
jusd bcuz u cane undrstnd itt, dousnt maek itt korecct
There is no “correct.” Language is constantly evolving. The only thing that matters is being understood.
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So what’s your stance on AAVE? Or ASL? Or even just regional dialects where the fizzy drink is called pop versus soda? What is your one guiding light on how English is supposed to be, and who adheres to it?
They weren’t saying “this ain’t English class,” they were saying that languages evolve. Which is true.
You’re not tired, you’re uneducated on language and how it works.
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I mean, I didn’t say that. You can always educate yourself.
Language is evolving doesn’t absolve you from misusing someone’s name. I get that some names get a commonly used shortcut, like Robert becomes Bob, but would you keep calling Robert Bob, even if Robert had asked you not to? Would you insist on using Bob, in the name of linguistic evolution?
Here’s the great thing about toys: they can’t ask me to call them anything. I can get a Buzz Lightyear doll and call it Woody. I can build a Millennium Falcon out of plastic blocks and call it the Serenity. Since they are toys I own and not sentient beings, I am not offending them.