I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button
I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button
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Where is the "hide all americans" button?
40 10 ReplyEspecially US politics. I couldn't care less.
Or as some Americans say, "I could care less"
29 7 ReplyIt'd take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don't care enough to reduce my interest any further.
3 1 ReplyFor any passing Americans who are thinking "what's the difference?", please take 3 minutes to find out.
6 6 ReplyThe purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
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3 5 ReplyBecause language evolves and isn't prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
2 2 ReplyThis is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
4 0 ReplyThe target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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2 4 Replythe argument is about america??
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2 0 ReplyYeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
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1 0 ReplyWebster wouldn't have cared
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1 0 ReplyWhy does it matter if the target audience understands it?
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