The flip side of that is that if the words you’re using are wutdownrerary, you should be told to stop using those words because by using them you make communication harder.
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tdawg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve always been a big advocate of the idea that the only part of communication that matters is communication. If people understand you then congrats you’ve successfully languaged
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Does “glizzy” (i.e. hotdog) fit under this classification?
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
glizzy
I’ve never heard that term, and wouldn’t know what it meant.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I literally gave the definition
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What if people understand you, but they think you’re stupid?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Congratulations! You did the best you could…
MonkRome@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s their problem, I always assume the stupid people are the ones that are so inflexible and uncreative that they don’t understand that language is entirely an amorphous flexible human creation.