• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    So is “gay”. Language evolves. Being a linguistic originalist would be a hard and eccentric hill to die on.

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      23 hours ago

      Being a linguistic originalist would be a hard and eccentric hill to die on.

      Well good I’m glad the UK has abandoned that principle, it was getting a bit pretentious.