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 5 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 5 months ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Does “glizzy” (i.e. hotdog) fit under this classification?
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
glizzy
I’ve never heard that term, and wouldn’t know what it meant.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I literally gave the definition
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What if people understand you, but they think you’re stupid?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Congratulations! You did the best you could…
MonkRome@lemmy.world 5 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.