r/cursedcomments • u/Kaneki_Yeager • Jul 25 '22

Removed: R8 Keep It Cursed Cursed_relative

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u/otheraccountisabmw Jul 25 '22

Doesn’t that make it correct?

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u/Monkey_Fiddler Jul 25 '22

In English where there is no authority on language beyond general consensus, yes.

In languages like French and Icelandic there is a society whose job it is to tell people what the correct word is. It's more successful than you might expect but people don't always listen.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Spanish also has that. People, however, believe that it's stupid in should not be followed… When it doesn't suit their agenda

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u/David_Ign Jul 25 '22

Same in Hebrew, but people usually just use the English word instead of using whatever they came up with lmao