• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    This issue people have with some fixed phrases is bizarre to me.

    Might as well say “Actually, this ‘morning’ isn’t ‘good’ at all!” and pretend you have a point. Really devalues anything following it by revealing the person saying it to be an obnoxious pedant.

    But standing up for women’s rights this way get’s more retweets, which is the ultimate measure of success after all, so what do I know?

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      17 days ago

      Responding like this means you don‘t understand the phrase „good morning“. It means „I wish you a good morning“.

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      17 days ago

      I get a lot of compliments on my use of the English language and I absolutely cannot stand prescriptivists (among other pedants).