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Cake day: August 7th, 2024

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  • I think that there are many things to consider here:

    • “correct” usage of a language is important, but we must be careful to not exclude people. English is not my native language, so this post will contain errors and if you’re going full grammar nazi, you might end up excluding people from written communication. That is not good
    • languages are evolving and it is the written mission of every official language committee to keep the official guidances in line with the changes of the language. Here in germany they are changing the official rules if the language is changing and are “legalizing” some new words
    • But: They are not legalizing gender neutral language due to political reasons. According to their own guidance, they have to, because that is in actual use, but they are refusing.
    • And then literal nazis are talking about “correct grammar” while not being able to spell themselves and that is stupid








  • But as regular people, gamers, Lemmy posters, why are we doing the same? How is it serving us? Are we all influencers in waiting, hoping to up our updoot count and build a following of… dozens?

    Many people are rationalizing their purchase decisions. Not everybody can afford to buy (and play!) two games so if you have two highly anticipated games or consoles coming out in the same time, most people can only get one. And then they have to choose. Afterward, they don’t want to hear that the other game is better, that it’s also great and they are missing out on a lot of fun and that the one they didn’t get is totally awesome.