He is way too much of an egoist for that

Should we just let any old thing that slips into common usage to become the norm?

Yes.

Why not spell it “definately”? It’s very common and everyone understands it.

I don’t think that quite meets the threshold yet, since most people who do that would still agree that it’s not correct. However, it’s close, and I wouldn’t be against recording it as an alternative spelling.

It’s a bit tangential, but English spelling is awful anyway, it bears hardly any relationship to the pronunciation, and I think it’s great if it evolves to be a bit less unintuitive.

I suppose you probably do accept the existence of American spellings, even if you aren’t from there? So the only difference between us is time, and how many people use a variant. Everyone is a descriptivist, some people just also think they should force their opinions on others, which is wrong. ;)

The squiggly line that spell check draws Uber under misspelled words

You wanted a lecture, here you go:

You can use less for countable nouns, any of them. We’ve been doing it for literally centuries. In fact, it has never been used only for uncountable nouns (unlike fewer, which has generally only been used for countable nouns). Correct language is determined by what native speakers use on purpose, not what a textbook or teacher says.

At least read the Wikipedia and the dictionary if you want to keep a strong opinion about this:

However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less with both countable nouns and uncountable nouns so that the traditional rule for the use of the word fewer stands, but not the traditional rule for the use of the word less. As Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage explains, "Less refers to quantity or amount among things that are measured and to number among things that are counted.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

Black pudding is fucking delicious, you’re missing out

English breakfast is like the only decent thing to come out of that place

Not just a change of Prime Minister like the last two times (lol), a general election of the whole lower house

No amount of infrastructure fixes a drought lmao

They actually don’t, on average they actually become slightly more progressive. However, rich people are conservative and rich people live longer.

Not to mention projection

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn’t write “voluntary mandatory”

That’s a feature not a bug.

Eg https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/04/black-spider-memos-second-batch-of-prince-charless-letters-released

They only “officially” dont, but in fact they wield a huge amount of power over the government, there have been several scandals about it in recent years

This was my first thought, thanks for doing it.

It drives me mad that the em dash isn’t the width of the M!

It’s because both of them serve the same US foreign policy goals. The ethics of one over the other don’t factor in to it at all.

Well yea… If you write “return <object of some other type>” that is actually wrong, as opposed to just not having gotten around to filling it in yet

Who cares lmao

It’s Scottish, sometimes ‘to’ is spelled ‘tae’ but that’s just a matter of preference, basically just means “fuck off” in several senses but in this case the incredulous “I don’t believe you” one.

That’s my reading too.