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[-] ragica@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

Never have a seen a more visceral illustration of the brutal dangers of ai.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago
[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Both are correct. Language changes.

Do you say *newb when correcting people that spell it noob because the origin of the word is newbie?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

get on my level, i correct people when they say bird to let them know it's *bridd.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Only when that flappy birb got them double d’s

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That's different.

Anyone who says "sike" over "psych" is a sike-o, plain and simple.

No I will not elaborate further.

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Whatever you say, Sithik!

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

It's spelled n00b!

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"language changes" does but make something magically correct.

It's not "pasgetti", it's "spaghetti".

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It doesn't change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That's how language works.

Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was "awful", as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word's changed to be a synonym for "figuratively" among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.

These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. That's how language works. Sorry friend, you're not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but what we're talking about is far too new and infrequent for that to have happened yet.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Both are correct. Language changes.

Does that mean that "there", "their", and "they're" can be used interchangeably now? Because that is much, much more common.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, because those all mean different things. Sike and psyche mean the same thing. Nobody needs to get pedantic about the correct spelling of slang used by elementary school kids in the 80's.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As in short for "paych-out".

I've seen many people insist Ir's "sike", though.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's because they are idiots.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen many people insist Ir's "sike", though.

I'd like to hear their rationale for that. I'll bet it's something like "That's how I saw it spelled".

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

A robot should know better!

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If my father taught me one thing it's never trust a robot in a game of tag

[-] don@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Ah, the classically correct spelling of the term. Well done.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love this so much.

this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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