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Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

Obligatory “technically correct, the best kind of correct”

That’s how English works. It’s usage. I think the French have a council that decides but English moves a lot faster.

I get having a pet peeve. I for one hate that ignorant means uneducated when it should be someone who is willfully ignoring. That’s just not the way it played out.

I love dictionaries and word usage. “Healthful” is a clunky word, I’m not surprised we moved to “healthy “

Edit: I just realized “helpful” sounds just fine. But if someone said to me “thanks for being so helpy today” I would be a full of seething hatred lol

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

French moves just as quickly. The Académie Française exists to make sure the French you learn in school doesn't keep up.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I only heard about it because of an article about them trying to find a French word for “e-mail”

Did that become of thing? Did it catch on?

I’m curious because in English once something has a “name” it never changes. Hell Donald trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I’m in Texas, no one is changing the name. It’s the Gulf of Mexico.

Once something is established it doesn’t change.

Did they change email into something more French? Does that work like that?

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nope. It very much did not catch on. We call a message received by email "un mail" and then to avoid overloading we have" le courier". Best, mark

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