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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 4 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

As a francophone I must cope with a diaspora of language snobs. Their ilk systematically go die on the same hill: hubris (it's a Greek word look I'm of the privileged class fuck off shit eating peasants). Redundancy is a fundamental and necessary quality of the human language. It's how we set the table for communication and restore its message despite imperfect transmission contexts. Imprecision is a fundamental and necessary quality of the human language. It's how we approach and explore complex subject matters in real time we don't fully grasp yet. It can be how we leave some information out for various reasons as well.

So je vous emmerde monsieur de Bernières. The language will thrive and morph despite your protestations. The thesaurus and the dictionary will reflect these changes, not the other way around.

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 points 31 minutes ago

But don’t you think it’s significantly more common now than twenty or thirty years ago, or have I just reached the age where it feel as if everyone is using ‘like’ every other word?

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 9 points 1 hour ago
[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

You know what I’m sayin’?

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 54 minutes ago

Oh to be fair "y'know" does grate me, y'know?

Along with every instructional YouTube video having multiple "go ahead and".

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 points 36 minutes ago

Not gonna lie.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Like is often just replacing um or other hesitations.

Also, the guy who wrote this really comes across as a twat.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 46 minutes ago

That's tantamount to a hot take.

[-] StillAlive@piefed.world 1 points 38 minutes ago
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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