That would be a good explanation, but a better explanation is that semantic bleaching makes common English adverbs far more broad than their constructions would imply. This is probably totally and definitely true.

I’m confused. The descriptivists are the pedants now? We’ve come a long way.

I put links on those phrases and then they got moved to the front of the paragraph. I tried to fix it and it looked okay, but then Kinja decided to break it again. Here’s what it should look like:

I’m curious why you think they would add a common word that has been used (if complained about) for decades all over the country if they didn’t have evidence of its use. What other motivation would they have? The joy of making a bunch of self-proclaimed language experts bellyache on the internet?

It’s not really a mispronunciation, but a re-analysis based on more common analogous forms. “-ably” means that it’s possible, so “supposably” means something “can be supposed,” and sounds more like the more common “-bly” adverbs (probably, incredibly, etc.) a opposed to the more rare and hard to pronounce “-edly”…

That’s sort of true, but it’s too voluntary and random to be very excited about. Better to just put it in the tax code so we don’t have to wait for random dumbass fads to move that money around.

Hmm, so you’re saying doing homework is the best path to being a happy healthy productive adult? I’m gonna go ahead and disagree on that one. I bet if you look around, at least 60% of the people you know either 1) didn’t do much homework and did great in life or 2) did all their homework and were awful people.

The amount of money being spent on these is a better justification for a wealth tax than anything else I’ve ever seen.

Exactly. There is no excuse for a person making nearly 8 figures to do dumb things like this. If you manage to blunder over all of the guardrails that rich people use to stay rich, you deserve all the bad things.

It’s doubly dumb because he didn’t quit while he was ahead. He’s already taken down Whedon, who apparently lots of other people have similar beefs with, and Fisher got legitimate credit for starting that. I don’t see dozens of other people coming out of the woodwork to denounce Hamada or Johns or whoever else he’s…

I’m sure that’ll be the inevitable Justice League 2 that the huge cliffhanger will create so much demand for.

It’s especially odd and disappointing since they made billions and dominated the entire internet with a bunch of free and good enough products. I don’t see a great upside to making a little more money and shredding goodwill with these cancellations and scare tactics and the like. I’ve been skeptical of all of the…

It seems that Leonard Cohen’s estate has had enough of Hallelujah being driven into the ground and Tom Waits was what Pandora played next.

Yeah, but there’s probably a case to be made that other shows (Reply All, Heavyweight) come to mind that got plenty of money and benefit of the doubt when hers didn’t. I don’t think anyone outside really knows much about the balance sheets, but chummy white guys getting their risky ideas funded while others don’t is a…

Yeah, I mentioned that in my other post, though I’d say that it’s more than just trolls. I’ve seen it in news writeups and relatively well known commentators. Eddings and other insiders have been more nuanced, but still calling their behavior “systemic racism” feels a little sloppy.

Not to mention NPR and PRX...

Yeah, the claims that they’re racist for opposing organization that would indirectly contribute to better racial equity doesn’t scan very well. Ignorant, insensitive, oblivious, having blindspots, maybe, but using the same term for this as for David Duke feels off.

Yeah, the racism accusations are sloppy, though they’re coming more from the messy internet rather than the initial accusers, who were more nuanced and focused in their criticism. The union issue was big, but the criticisms ran deeper and less clearly than that. I think the heart of it is that their reporting on Bon…

Same goes for Xena’s gratuitous girl + girl = hawt! scenes in the same time period.

True. The Snyderverse also thinks that the grittiness is the idea, not just a way to talk about ideas. Nolan’s movies are dark because Batman has to operate in moral gray areas. Snyder’s movies are dark because he thinks murder is awesome and colors and smiling are dumb.