I’m still confused? It’s not Point of View, it’s Confused Point of View?

I was taught two spaces in the 90s and didn't find out it's changed until maybe a couple years ago.

huh? i don't think some_kind_of_guy is saying 'POV' means "I am confused" (is that how you understood the comment above?)

Americans don't use pram though, we say stroller

If so, that's great. Literally was taken; sometimes you're trying to communicate something that sounds figurative, or like hyperbole, but it's not.

I get irrationally angry any time I hear "I's". I can tolerate most other grammar issues, but something about that particular butchery of English drives me up the wall.

The "deci" prefix is just a coincidence then?

Literally and Crescendo are my vocabulary pet peeves. Both have stupidly evolved to include definitions that mean the exact opposite of their true meanings.

Literally is annoying, but Crescendo is impossible. That is a specific musical term with an unalterable meaning. It means a gradual increase in volume, but it has come to mean a climax. Something will be described as "it rose to a crescendo," and that is simply wrong. Something can crescendo to a climax, but not the other way around. If you change it to mean the climax, you can't crescendo to a crescendo, s what's the word for gradually increasing the volume?

Besides, it's a musical term, and musicians will define musical terms, not illiterate civilians.

And if Literally can also mean "similar to," then what word can be used to literally mean Literally?

You're being downvoted, but I suspect you're actually correct. A note about the act of decimation: it wasn't just killing every tenth soldier. It was that the other nine soldiers were forced to kill the tenth. It was an absolutely brutal act where soldiers were forced to kill their friends and comrades.

It makes sense that saying an act is as brutal as decimation would then come to replace the word itself over time. That happens pretty frequently in language evolution.

Yeah, I still feel like I'm supposed to, but frequently I think it makes more sense to pull it outside if it isn't part of the quote. Putting it in the quotation makes it seem like it's associated with the quotation, when it may not be.

For me, i make peace with this by thinking, the rules are one way for writing dialog, and perhaps another way when needing to convey the exactness of a quote.

"Piss over vulvas"? Not sure if that's real.

I assume that kid thought it was only for porn. Ironically, they are the ones who outed themselves, though who gives a shit? Everyone watches porn.

POV has meant point of view for far longer than porn has used it. I have no idea of the origins, but it's old. I remember using it in English classes to describe how stories were written, for example, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a modern thing.

It's funny, quite a few misguided souls on the threadiverse seem to think that the /s is implied.

On the internet, it never is. That's why we invented it.

Elden Ring is trying to bring the spelling back to "gaol."

Also an electroboom fan :p

It annoys me when people put double spaces after periods, but i guess it was necessary in the typrewiter days? Idk

Yeah, pram is a British term. Or pushchair.

In pre-secondary education I was taught to double-space, but post I was told to single IIRC. I prefer single personally.

Interestingly, typing two spaces on my phone is replaced by a period and a single space. It's like a vestigial mechanic from that practice. It's aware of the context of what a double space was used for, but it serves a totally different purpose to not have to type a period.

This is one of those ones that's different whether you're in British English or American English.

The technical philosophical usage seems to mostly be on the British side of things.

I'd say pram is still pretty British ("I have to push the pram-a-lot!") in the US it would be almost definitely stroller.

They gave that as an example. POV just seems to be used an an unnecessary prefix to stating an opinion.

A bit like to "useless 'nobody:'" line before a meme caption.

I agree, but there was a period in the '00s, or maybe early '10s, where the meaning was changing because you only ever saw it mean "figuratively", to the point where dictionaries included both meanings. I think it's settled back to its original meaning now though.

In US usage, it used to be that a situation could be "fraught with" complications, or hidden meaning, or difficulty, but it had to be "fraught with" something.

These days, the British style of saying that the situation is simply "fraught" seems to be way more popular than before.

Efficiency at work i guess. Maybe some cunning linguist can explain.

I've never heard this one. I guess I'm getting old.

"Reticent" used to mean 'reluctance to speak', or, 'holding your tongue', but in the last decade I saw it being used more frequently as a straight up synonym for 'reluctance'. I wonder if people maybe think it's a more authoritative sounding word?

It's not a change of convenience or cultural drift, just a sign of people reading less and subconsciously trying to hide it, I think.

Plenty of bad grammar and speling to go around.

30 years ago fewer people with literacy problems were publicly and obsessively defacing literary norms.

More like a vague gesture, which, in idiom chock-full of metonymy, is legitimate.

Correct, correct. I don't really have good memories of that place due to some other reasons.

Print publishing has 500 years of convention built on trial and error.

As a person who learned to type on a typewriter, and then became a typesetter and publisher, and now does a lot of editing, double spaces are only of use in a monospace type face where there is no kerning possible.

Otherwise, type with variable spaces between the letters plus variable letter sizes is physically harder to read when there are extra gaps between the sentences, despite the way you were trained (by boomers, probably) to type.

It hasn't changed, you were just taught an overly specific application and not taught that it was such.

Don't do that unless it's a monotype font, please.

Sincerely, typesetters everywhere.

said often in an office context, not a youth thing in my experience

Just demonstrating an incorrect use of POV 😅

People really love to feel smug about others using words "wrong" for some reason. Let them. I don't care.

'Programme' is mostly replaced by 'program'.

We can still pronounce it correctly (with an O like 'pronounce' or 'proclaim') so there's that

It's just indolence.

It's like people who put an S on the end of 'e-mail' to pluralize it.

The OED actually includes the definition of literally as being what used to be the opposite of its definition nowadays, so I think that it does count as an auto-antonym (a word that means both itself, and the opposite of itself)

Apple put the nail in the coffin for adverbs when "Think different" let illiterates think they were speaking correctly.

I was one of the first years to have the new spelling rules.
It used to be, that a letter appearing more than twice in direct sequence would be cut to just twice. But that was lifted and is now just how many it should normally be. Examples: Schifffahrt, Brennnessel, Seeelefant.

It used to be, that "dass" could also be spelt "daß", but the rules for "ss" and "ß" were made clearer and more concise.

They also changed the way words could be split at the end of a line. If there was a double consonant in-between the syllables that were to split, the first syllable would take both consonants but now they are split evenly.
immer is split im-mer and not imm-er
But ck makes an exception: knackig is kna-ckig instead of old knak-kig

Would you rather prefer i’s or mine’s?

The one that bothers me most (heard a lot in the software dev world) is when people say process-eez instead of processes, even if it is technically a word now, like ain’t

I don't understand the pusher/pram one at all.

Pour one out for the Oxford Comma .

Let's eat Grandma

Commas save lives!

*speaking correct

Far as I've ever seen, that's how everyone pronounces it.

YES! That's basically my same reasoning.

That's it, I'm going to start using "It rose to a fortissississimo"!

And don't get me started on how the Pianoforte is just called the piano now, leaving out half of its loudness range smh.

Ain't ain't a word.

It is now.

Yes, but we got the good aussie slang!

Like, "no worries". Fucking love it.