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Tom in London
Tom in London
Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
Local time: 01:46
Μέλος από 2008
Ιταλικά σε Αγγλικά
Jul 23, 2024

Politically Lionel Shriver and I face each other on opposite sides of a dark, infested river, but when it comes to the English language we're comrades in arms.

Enjoy

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/08/semantic-drift/



[Edited at 2024-07-23 12:17 GMT]

P.L.F. Persio
Jennifer Levey
ph-b (X)
neilmac
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Baran Keki
Baran Keki  Identity Verified
Τουρκία
Local time: 04:46
Μέλος
Αγγλικά σε Τουρκικά
Who's this pretender? Jul 23, 2024

Tom in London is dead. Plus, he'd never have used the word 'literally'. Who's using ChatGPT to impersonate this guy?

Chris Says Bye
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Matthias Brombach
Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
Wilsonn Perez Reyes
 
Chris Says Bye
Chris Says Bye
TLDR: She thinks we should write like it’s still the 1950s Jul 23, 2024

I thought it a rather pompous, poorly written article, but I imagine few of us here would disagree with her.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
P.L.F. Persio
 
Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
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Local time: 01:46
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Get well soon, Tom Jul 23, 2024

I'm glad the doctors were able to put you back together again, Humpty... uh, I mean Tom.

Wilsonn Perez Reyes
 
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
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Local time: 01:46
Αγγλικά σε Ιταλικά
Enjoyed it... Jul 23, 2024

well, kind of... my head really exploded...

P.L.F. Persio
Lingua 5B
 
Dr. Matthias Schauen
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Γερμανία
Local time: 02:46
Μέλος από 2007
Αγγλικά σε Γερμανικά
Summary Jul 23, 2024

The article's last two sentences sum it up nicely, IMHO:
Ultimately, the evolution of language is a story of mob rule. But surely there’s a tattered nobility to valiantly fighting wars that we know we can’t win.

Tom in London
IrinaN
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
P.L.F. Persio
Jorge Payan
ph-b (X)
Daryo
 
Angie Garbarino
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Local time: 02:46
Μέλος από 2003
Γαλλικά σε Ιταλικά
+ ...
British humor? Jul 23, 2024

Baran Keki wrote:

Tom in London is dead.


Just a question

Have a nice day!

Baran Keki
Matthias Brombach
IrinaN
 


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