I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.
What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.
The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.
Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on “correct” grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn’t be stable enough to be usable. There’s no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that’s just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.
I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.
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There’s a lot of misinformation about this event, which was formally acknowledged by the USA fairly recently. He did leave unharmed, I was surprised to hear anybody thought otherwise. However, you are stretching credulity by claiming he was pro-government. Seeing as he was never located, I can at least concede that neither of us know what he was thinking at the time.
Leave the micropenis guys alone, it’s already a shit card to be dealt.
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Which is why I’ll never call Turkey “Türkiye”, though they’re free to call themselves that. I don’t see Germany insisting I call it Deutschland, after all.
Golfo de México is just as annoying, well done.
“100 million smokers can’t be wrong!”
Basically, yes, you’re limited by drug dynamics and kinetics - if an opioid molecule had absolute binding affinity, efficiency and efficacy etc., you’d only need the number of molecules of that drug that could occupy the number of receptors in the body for that particular drug. I think that’s probably the case for these hyper-potent drugs like carfentanyl or whatever, and it ends up being astonishingly little. Think about botulinum toxin, for example - 2ng/kg intravenous would likely kill somebody.
Yes, the opium wars never ended. That doesn’t make this good, though.
That’s an awful haircut.
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Now that I can certainly agree with.
Yes, that’s a reasonable take.