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user-inactivated  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

At which point it will be too late! If middle and high school students are using these words nonironically, then the CEOs will be in 40 years.





humanodon  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, then it's probably already too late. Nothing to do about it except start laying the foundations for the next change.

user-inactivated  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some days I only talk in references.

humanodon  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I'm afraid it will have to be something other than that. People already do that and have been doing it for so many generations that often people don't realize that they are doing it, or what they are saying originally referenced.

user-inactivated  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How about where we ended up in Cloud Atlas