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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because language evolves and isn't prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The target understands it, therefore it is correct language