• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      26·
      11 months ago

      Especially since it literally translates to “death of ⅒”… The illiterate/lazy blurt it out, bone-apple-tea style, when they actually mean “devastate”. 🤦🏼

        • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          52·
          11 months ago

          I’m not discounting morphology, thanks. I’m pointing out that linguistic alteration due to suboptimal literacy is a sad fact of our modern age, and one worth paying the fuck attention to…

          But, y’all can keep getting your jimmies rustled, and do fuck all about anything after you downvote and feel better. That’ll change the world. Yup. 🤦🏼