Given our thoughts are largely impacted by the vocabulary we know, being able to come up with new words can be considered a super power!
Except if you're talking about Turkish, TDK dictates what words are real, how they're written, what they mean and other grammar and writing rules.
I love militant descriptivists
English dictionaries are also very much on the descriptive side of things as of late, especially compared to their counterparts among other languages.
Dunno how the tea totallers do things but here in burgerland we actually have sort of a minor annual event finding out the latest slang terms and grammars that have entered this year's edition of the webster dictionary, and which words have fallen out of significant use enough to be dropped from the book too.
Yeah, yeah, but where's the fun in that? Trolling the shit out of people is way too much fun to not be pedantic.
But there is no single word in modern English for "the day after tomorrow" or "the day before yesterday".
In other languages, maybe. But not in English.
OTOH, at least the word for tomorrow isn't also the word for morning.
Ok but "melty" isn't a real word and I'll die on this hill
even if it's a real word I hate it
Something expensive is spendy. Something that melts is melty. What's the trub, bub?
Some people think god is an English teacher and his cock is a huge red pen.
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