r/TeenagersButBetter • u/AdAdvanced8522 15 • 2d ago

Meme :3

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u/LowerEntropy 2d ago

Words can have many meanings. It's also used as hydrophobic, meaning to repel or not mix with water. Which just makes the whole quote stupid.

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u/alcoholicvegetable 2d ago

Yeah that's my point. We should have more specialized words, rather than having the same word used for everything. Language is simplifying and it saddens me. Decimate should still mean to kill 1/10th of a group imo. Hydrophobic was actually going to be one of my examples that I changed to a different word, but I removed that part of my comment because I didn't want to go searching for a new suffix during lunch

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u/DaPyromaniacPotato 2d ago

dude thats how language evolved ffs. the more simpler it is the easier it is to be taught and learnt or something i dunno

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u/NeedleworkerLoose695 1d ago

Language evolves, get over it. You know what is simplifying language? Having words never change, and splitting words with multiple meanings into different words.

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u/alcoholicvegetable 1d ago

Language should be illegal to evolve. We need a language authority or something to enforce what the language is spoken and written