🙂‍↔️✋“For Breakfast”

☺️👉 “With Breakfast”

I have no suggestion for enforcement, although your suggestion would be quite hilarious and I’m going to imagine doing that every time someone says “peruse” and means “to casually glance over”.

I use ‘literally’ as my example because it is the simplest and easiest example available. You just listed several others, two of which I didn’t know about, thank you for the knowledge and for helping my point.

I appreciate you providing an actual useful definition.

Next question: how does that etymology work? Why “cap”?

Yeah, I know that’s how it is, I disagree on how it should be.

no one has successfully explained to me what that means.

Might i suggest my religion of Awesomism, in which the messiah is a horni non-binary catboy? They tell us the truth that sex is dope as fuck and hating other people for petty reasons is cringe.

I recently had a conversation with someone 1/3 my age. Allegedly, we both spoke english. Neither of us understood a damn thing the other said. I know this is an extreme example, and not representative of most contexts, but I think it’s worth looking at as an extreme example of how lack of language prescription can go horribly wrong.

Then what’s the point of teaching language to children in school?

I should have just kept this to myself.

I’d argue that dictionaries should be prescriptive, with systems in place for modification as language changes and semantics shift.

Case in point: the word “literally” now being its own antonym.

Thanks kind stranger! I can read this!

here you go

they could be lesbians.

can someone up the contrast on this? I can’t read shit.

By definition, that would make them not indie. Actually, there needs to be separate terms for a game that is “indie style” vs “independent of a publisher or parent company”,