• ferret@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The abscence of formal centralized definitions is kinda the bread and butter of the english language. All dictionaries are trying to describe how people use words, not what they mean.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not amorphous enough fit it to ever be ok for a white+ American girl to just say she’s Latin because she feels like that’s just a state of mind. Language does not work like that.