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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

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
What if people understand you, but they think you’re stupid?

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- Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Congratulations! You did the best you could…
  
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- MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Does “glizzy” (i.e. hotdog) fit under this classification?
  
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  - merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    glizzy
    
    I’ve never heard that term, and wouldn’t know what it meant.
    
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    mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I literally gave the definition
    
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