"OCD" refers to the medical condition known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its symptoms, and also anyone who gets annoyed by messiness or who double checks stuff. If you ever claim it only refers to that first thing, you are being prescriptivist, but also based.

a lot of hobbyist internet linguists still need to realize that "having opinions about how language should be used" and even "attempting to enforce those opinions" is not evil, you just can't conflate it with how language is used in reality. stop using the word "prescriptivism" like that.

"the most reasonable position is always a compromise between the two extremes" does not hold up in the real world, but occasionally it is correct. for example:

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nimi "majuna" li nimi ku lili, taso ona li nimi su kin. jan Osu pi wawa nasa li kepeken nimi ni. kepeken lipu su la, jan Sonja li ken suli e nimi sin.

mi wile sona e ni: lipu su kama li kepeken ala kepeken nimi sin pi ku suli ala? nimi "majuna" li nimi su pi wan taso anu seme?

Just bumped into an old friend.

mi wile sona e ni: ilo DeepSeek (ilo pi ma Sonko sama ChatGPT) li ken ala ken toki pona? mi pana e alasa sona tawa ilo DeepSeek.

ilo ni li ken toki pona a! kin la, ilo ni li toki Inli ala pi ma Tawan. taso, ona li toki pona pi ma Tawan. sina toki pona la, len pi toki ala li pakala!

inshallah we will put apples in crust with sugar and cinnamon baked till warm and oozing, serve with vanilla ice cream. call that Apple Pie Allah Mode

mi sitelen pona lon tomo kulupu la jan li lukin e mi. mi pali e seme la ona li wile sona. mi toki tawa ona la ona li toki e ni: tenpo poka la ken la ona li kama sona e toki pona.

the central fallacy of the internet is the easily falsifiable claim that conversation is good

In no timeline where Japan does not have massive amounts of soft power and cultural recognition is people's go-to epenthetic vowel /u/.

There is clear evidence that #tetris is corrupting the minds of our youths. Thankfully, I am here to bring the truth to light with compelling and original evidence. America must prevail.

/j

2024 has been a mixed bag of a year, but at least the Catholic Church added a new member to the Characters Named 'Light' Club

tawa jan pi toki pona: nimi sin seme pi ku suli ala (ku lili, ku ala) li pona tawa sina?

@oats.moe o, ni li ken ala ken: ilo "toki pona lon sewi laso" li kama jo e toki pona pi sitelen Lasina ala? 例えば「ミ・ウィレム・トキ・ポナ・ケペケン・シテレン・カタカナ」って書いたら、この列を見つけられた?

it's kinda funny that our political climate has reached the point where if your public forum bans people for spreading blatant misinformation or hate, it's considered an echo chamber. basically for a space to uphold truth or human rights, it has to be insulated from reality. i mean yeah that's true.

I was skeptical of the drone reports at first.

I mocked people who reported them.

I laughed at them.

And then I saw one for myself and captured photographic evidence.

They’re real.

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