Well, if we don’t know what someone means then what’s the point of language? You’d just be talking past one another…tho yeah, some “mistakes” are easy enough to reconcile in your head and you get what the other person is trying to convey
There is no better way to come off as a pretentious asshat in my mind than to stubbornly stomp a foot and declare “my way of pronouncing this word is correct and everyone else is wrong.”
Yes language evolves, but words only mean things when both parties understand them. Having a general consensus is helpful both in the present and looking back from the future.
There is no better way to come off as a pretentious asshat in my mind than to stubbornly stomp a foot and declare “my way of pronouncing this word is correct and everyone else is wrong.”
Exactly. Which is why correct pronunciation is a good thing - otherwise you’re the pretentious asshat who’s stomping the foot.
Well, if we don’t know what someone means then what’s the point of language? You’d just be talking past one another…tho yeah, some “mistakes” are easy enough to reconcile in your head and you get what the other person is trying to convey
There is no better way to come off as a pretentious asshat in my mind than to stubbornly stomp a foot and declare “my way of pronouncing this word is correct and everyone else is wrong.”
Language evolves, and some folk can’t handle it.
Yes language evolves, but words only mean things when both parties understand them. Having a general consensus is helpful both in the present and looking back from the future.
Exactly. Which is why correct pronunciation is a good thing - otherwise you’re the pretentious asshat who’s stomping the foot.