Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoI love verbing nouns, and there's nothing english teachers can do to stop me.message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down10
arrow-up156arrow-down1message-squareI love verbing nouns, and there's nothing english teachers can do to stop me.Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-21 year agoDescriptivists Prescriptivists delende est. z Linguistics is literally "We will not end the horror. We will only explain it. :@iridaniotter@hexbear.net has informed me that I posted cringe and I have corrected it
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoYou mean prescriptivists?
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoOh no I am owned. : (
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoSorry, I didn’t mean to own you. I just don’t want people confused.
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoNo, no, it is okay to be owned sometimes. We own, and are owned in turn. Such is the way of the world.
DescriptivistsPrescriptivists delende est. zLinguistics is literally "We will not end the horror. We will only explain it.
:@iridaniotter@hexbear.net has informed me that I posted cringe and I have corrected it
You mean prescriptivists?
Oh no I am owned. : (
Sorry, I didn’t mean to own you. I just don’t want people confused.
No, no, it is okay to be owned sometimes. We own, and are owned in turn. Such is the way of the world.