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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Literally is literally not literally except when it literally is literally.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Plural for "new" was my presumption as well. That means a news article can actually be called a "new".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It takes less time to Google that or ask a device, than to post that disinfo

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Disinfo gets engagement though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They should've checked this from the authority himself: Gary Busey.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is Webster, named after the guy who butchered English for fun and fame? It's like dunning-kruger became a linguistic architect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Wasn't he trying to simplify it? He's the reason for most of our Americanized spellings, I'm pretty sure.