Comment on Linguistics
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 month ago
English dictionaries are also very much on the descriptive side of things as of late, especially compared to their counterparts among other languages.
Dunno how the tea totallers do things but here in burgerland we actually have sort of a minor annual event finding out the latest slang terms and grammars that have entered this year’s edition of the webster dictionary, and which words have fallen out of significant use enough to be dropped from the book too.
klemptor@startrek.website 1 month ago
…what do you think teetotaler means?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Brits and Brit adjacents.
psud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Teetotaler means someone who abstains from alcohol
Tea totaller would make a reasonable pun in a thing about the Boston tea party, but sounds like a mondegreen in other contexts
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
oh the irony
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you think wordplay is?