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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Posts and discussion about the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith (and related works)

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Alt textIn the final round, they pelt you with eggcorns.

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I unironically love descriptivism because it acknowledges languages in active use as not dead, and not static.

Most of y’all nerds know that “nice” and “mean” used to have very different definitions 😄

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I knew about nice, but what did mean mean?

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

As an adjective: lowly, common, inferior.

You’ll have to scroll a bit but here should give a better explanation