This is POVOSE aka Point of View (of someone else)
Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors
finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 day ago
I don't think you really know what Point of View means, but great meme keep up the good work.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s more like a perspective now instead of pov like it’s originally intended to mean.
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just mentally insert “you are observing” after the “POV:” and move on with your day. This argument has been a lost battle for a long time now, in much the same was that “literally” was.
finitebanjo@piefed.world 23 hours ago
Ugh like, I'm so totally like sorry that you're having such a literally hard time rn, but I'm going to correct people every single time.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Hey, don’t let me stop you. I only mean to say that you’re very likely wasting your breath, and I know that from my own experience losing the argument against the expanded definition of literally. Languages change, prescriptivism is a losing battle, and that’s just the nature of things. It’s why we aren’t having this exchange in Proto-Indo-European.