Just mentally insert “you are observing” after the “POV:” and move on with your day. This argument has been a lost battle for a long time now, in much the same was that “literally” was.
I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.
Hey, don’t let me stop you. I only mean to say that you’re very likely wasting your breath, and I know that from my own experience losing the argument against the expanded definition of literally. Languages change, prescriptivism is a losing battle, and that’s just the nature of things. It’s why we aren’t having this exchange in Proto-Indo-European.
Just mentally insert “you are observing” after the “POV:” and move on with your day. This argument has been a lost battle for a long time now, in much the same was that “literally” was.
Ugh like, I’m so totally like sorry that you’re having such a literally hard time rn, but I’m going to correct people every single time.
I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.
Hey, don’t let me stop you. I only mean to say that you’re very likely wasting your breath, and I know that from my own experience losing the argument against the expanded definition of literally. Languages change, prescriptivism is a losing battle, and that’s just the nature of things. It’s why we aren’t having this exchange in Proto-Indo-European.