Timeline for Is it correct to say “my oldest child” when you have only two children?
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 22:17 | history | protected | MetaEd | ||
| S Oct 21, 2018 at 0:29 | history | suggested | Kat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removing rant that's unrelated to the question
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| Oct 20, 2018 at 23:33 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 7:14 | comment | added | Tuffy | I am afraid Mari-Lou A is right. Many of us, as we get older, find ourselves lamenting the carelessness or ignorance of younger generations as they ignore rules that our ‘stricter’ teachers drilled into us. The confining of the comparative to certain dualities is one. My pet hate is the ‘careless misuse’ of ‘infer’ to mean ‘imply’. Until I found instances in OED going back to the 18th century! In the first century BCE old men were doing this. Language is not a fixed thing. There might be an interesting question about the first people to ‘violate’ a rule were wrong or ahead of their time. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 6:24 | answer | added | user307254 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:59 | answer | added | Carly | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | The two issues you describe are unrelated and very different in nature, so I think the second point, although very interesting, deserves its own separate question. it is unclear what you want to know or understand, in your shoes I would specify where you hear this usage and specifically turn it into a proper question. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:43 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
isolated question for easier reference, improved formatting
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:30 | history | asked | gillian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |