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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve seen descriptivists take the position that if enough people use a made up word it counts as communication, but the only people I’ve ever seen saying “well I’m gonna call a tree a xopo instead” are prescriptivists who don’t understand descriptivism.

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