I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.
What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.
The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.
Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on “correct” grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn’t be stable enough to be usable. There’s no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that’s just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.
Yes, this answer. Try hitting it (don’t). Also reduces heating costs in old properties with high ceilings.
I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.
he look silly
You mean the Bob Dylan-ex machina didn’t do it for you?
Donald Trump’s entire career seems to be built on a single expression he makes. Essentially the one in that picture. I’m not sure what it is but it conveys some combination of superiority, disdain, and disinterest. It’s clearly very successful at establishing dominance, for some reason. Awful man.
There’s a lot of misinformation about this event, which was formally acknowledged by the USA fairly recently. He did leave unharmed, I was surprised to hear anybody thought otherwise. However, you are stretching credulity by claiming he was pro-government. Seeing as he was never located, I can at least concede that neither of us know what he was thinking at the time.
Which is why I’ll never call Turkey “Türkiye”, though they’re free to call themselves that. I don’t see Germany insisting I call it Deutschland, after all.
Golfo de México is just as annoying, well done.
I don’t really care.
“100 million smokers can’t be wrong!”
Yes, that’s a reasonable take.