Comment on Venom vs Poison
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months agoThis is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.
Comment on Venom vs Poison
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months agoThis is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 months ago
If it’s colloquially accepted then that does tend to be the case.
If they are just saying the wrong words and trying to justify it, that’s a different story. But far too often it’s colloquial and classicalists are just being obtuse by not growing with the language.