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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 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] 2 points 5 months ago

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

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

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

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

Idk if all the people in this comment section are joking, it means things that are new. New information about the world.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No is really enough but a good addition would be to "Try again and get it right."

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