slykethephoxenix@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 4 days agoCarney's plan to cut tens of billions in spending is tough but doable, experts saywww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11
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minus-squarepuppinstuff@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agoLanguage evolves constantly. If people use a word and can understand its meaning and context then it’s a perfectly cromulent option.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 days agoI don’t disagree. I’ve been saying it since like… 2005. Seeing the CBC use it feels weird though. 🤷♂️
minus-squareJoseph Szymborski :qcca:@cosocial.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days ago@Mongostein @slykethephoxenix earliest recorded use is from the 15th century, but it’s likely from the 12th. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/doable/_adj#6341248
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t even know what an allophone is
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone_(person)
Doable is a real word now?
Language evolves constantly. If people use a word and can understand its meaning and context then it’s a perfectly cromulent option.
I don’t disagree. I’ve been saying it since like… 2005. Seeing the CBC use it feels weird though. 🤷♂️
@Mongostein @slykethephoxenix earliest recorded use is from the 15th century, but it’s likely from the 12th.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/doable/_adj#6341248
Now that’s interesting
As an allophone: it isn’t?
I don’t even know what an allophone is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone_(person)