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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao "I'd rather be wrong like everyone else" is the most spineless, smoothbrained, brainwashy bullshit I've ever heard. Get the fuck out of here.

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

You do you.

When it comes to language, the majority determine what is the right way to say something. Feel free to be in the minority.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont know why you believe thats how language works, its not. Everyone in Texas pronouncing "nuclear" "nukular" instead of "noo-clee-ar" doesn't make it correct. It still comes from the root word "nucleus", not "nukulus". The majority are objectively wrong, and there are no arguments to be made to the contrary.

If you want to be wrong on purpose, go for it, just stop pretending otherwise. You're embarrassing yourself and all English speakers.