• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Oof, shove a bat up your ass! Do governments perform extrojudicial killings? Do we extrodite prisoners, and extropolate data, too?

    Extra means “without” or “outside”. Extro has no definition, because it’s not a word. It is in opposition to “intro” which is also, GASP, a latin word, meaning “within”, or “inside”. How is this hard to understand? God I hate throngs of people being wrong at the same time.

    “Extrovert” was introduced BECAUSE uneducated people used the wrong word so much they had to.

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      8 months ago

      Or English comes from a broad range of roots, not just Latin, and you have a hard time admitting when you were wrong!

      Not to mention you already conceded that it’s the current correct form of the word, and if you think language doesn’t change over time due to usage then you’re doubly ignorant.

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        8 months ago

        It gives me so much joy seeing a Lemmy thread collectively shit on a completely bad take on linguistics

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Extrovert" was introduced BECAUSE uneducated people used the wrong word so much they had to.

      Boy, wait til you learn about literally every word in the English language (another example of a word changing due to use)