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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The dictionary is a collection of knowledge not an authority on language.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been saying this since I watched a video on the history of dictionaries in elementary school (I heard that the I before e except after c rule was made by a guy trying to discredit Shakespeare and got interested)

I'm so glad I've been seeing this type of stuff on lemmy. It's refreshing to see people actually understand that these are just recordings of words and how they're spelt and pronounced (with bias and purposeful edits) rather than an actual hard line in the sand.

Edit: holy fucking shit I can't type

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A collection of words even, claiming to be a standard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

The dictionary doesn't claim to be the standard. Also no one has the dictionary you have an abridged version. Because the real one if massive