this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Drag believes very strongly in language. That's why drag changes language; drag cares about it and wants to improve it. It's like the hot rodders who love their cars and are always improving them. Or the programmers who contribute to the open source projects they love. Drag thinks drag knows a lot about language, and drag sure likes spending long hours thinking about how language works. You might say linguistics is a hobby to drag. And drag isn't the kind of hobbyist who only studies and never tinkers.
You’re not improving language you’re making yourself look foolish and self aggrandizing
Yeah language is something that takes a group effort to change, trying to change it on your own only is bound to cause miscommunication and misinterpretation. After all language is only useful if others speak it, if you fork and modify English with your own changes that no one else agrees to then it doesn't do anyone any good.
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