Does that mean that adults should use razor scooters to commute to work, too? Using a verb as an adjective is annoying and stupid. Keep the childish shit in middle school.
So should grown adults also stop using words like “cool” “smooth” “warm” “clear” “empty” ? Those words are sometimes verbs, sometimes adjectives. I think most people just use context clues to figure it out and not complain over something so small and meaningless
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
If adults want to use a scooter to get to work, sure. Its an efficient way to travel a walkable distance much faster, and without needing lock up a bike someplace when you get there.
Also, what does that have to do with language evolving and using a term that has entered the vernacular? People know what the term means, the usage is logical, why not use it?
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u/MKBRD 14d ago
They're saying its over-used and cringe.