English is a living language
It evolves and changes constantly.
I love experiencing the new tributaries it creates.
( , Sun 14 Apr 2019, 21:52, Share, Reply)
It evolves and changes constantly.
I love experiencing the new tributaries it creates.
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A tributary lies upstream of a river. The river does not make the tributary, the tributaries make the river.
If a language is evolving it must be flowing forward, like a river. It does not regress to its origin by way of its tributaries. Distributaries are found in deltas, as the river progresses into the sea. English is a living language. Let's not mutilate it with malapropian metaphors.
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If a language is evolving it must be flowing forward, like a river. It does not regress to its origin by way of its tributaries. Distributaries are found in deltas, as the river progresses into the sea. English is a living language. Let's not mutilate it with malapropian metaphors.
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*doffs cap
Correct use of tributary. However you understood my meaning. And that means it was semantically correct. (I am a linguist)
""When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”"
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Correct use of tributary. However you understood my meaning. And that means it was semantically correct. (I am a linguist)
""When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”"
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Hmmm.
The fact that I understood what you meant doesn't make what you said semantically correct. 5000 words on The Semantics of Sarcasm on my desk by tomorrow morning please. Humpty Dumpty cannot appear in your bibliography.
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The fact that I understood what you meant doesn't make what you said semantically correct. 5000 words on The Semantics of Sarcasm on my desk by tomorrow morning please. Humpty Dumpty cannot appear in your bibliography.
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Nope.
That's what semantics is. Your original point is still correct. And a big old egg remains my source.
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That's what semantics is. Your original point is still correct. And a big old egg remains my source.
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I think Ambegris meant oxbow lakes branching off a sessile oak trunk.
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whatever he meant, he still needs a space after that em dash in the last sentence.
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