105
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
105 points (81.8% liked)
Apple
16759 readers
122 users here now
Welcome
to the largest Apple community on Lemmy. This is the place where we talk about everything Apple, from iOS to the exciting upcoming Apple Vision Pro. Feel free to join the discussion!
Rules:
- No NSFW Content
- No Hate Speech or Personal Attacks
- No Ads / Spamming
Self promotion is only allowed in the pinned monthly thread
Communities of Interest:
Apple Hardware
Apple TV
Apple Watch
iPad
iPhone
Mac
Vintage Apple
Apple Software
iOS
iPadOS
macOS
tvOS
watchOS
Shortcuts
Xcode
Community banner courtesy of u/Antsomnia.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
That's kind an argument for not caring about spelling and grammar. We can all tell what Xepp meant. The principle at hand is why linguists say that insisting on rigid grammar and spelling is pointless. Also, language evolves... otherwise we'd be saying thy and thou. Dialects other than the 'prestige dialect' spoken and written by people with the highest access to education are considered perfectly legitimate because all that matters is whether the listener can understand..
Bill helped his brother, jack, off a horse.
Bill helped his brother jack off a horse
It doesn't take much sometimes for a sentence to completely change meaning,l; at best we knew what he meant but struggled through it slightly.
Sure, that's an example where we don't understand the intent of the author.
I thought we were meant to be inclusive now? There's a good chunk of us that literally can't look past a sentence that's like a car crash. It's like an old vinyl record that's got a scratch, our eyes keep jumping back to the horrible spelling and reading it again the same way you'd look at a dismembered corpse at the side of the road, despite not actually wanting to
Inclusiveness for purists!!!