• Kempeth@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Good time to plug Dara O’Brian: don’t do that. One day you’re gonna have kids and need these words in their normal context. Your kid is gonna come in with muddy shoes and you’re all “oh my. You’re a dirty girl.” and then you’ll ask yourself wtf you just said to your own kid.

    Some words and expressions need to stay with their original meaning! These include:

    • dirty,
    • naughty and *tone of voice breaks*
    • do what daddy tells you!
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        1 year ago

        It’s a joke an the futility of linguistic prescriptivism. I might not have represented it well but the whole punchline is that this ship has sailed long ago.