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Not a word, my dude.
In-store is, and language is fluid. If you understood what I meant we succeeded in communicating, anything else is you just trying to be better than someone else.
Languageisfluid isacommon excusefor people whoare justwrong.
Except language is demonstrably fluid, meanwhile it seems like your grasping of prescriptive pedantry is coincidentally just a lazy reason to try and be correct when everyone knew what "instore" meant.
Do you say "God be with you" when departing, or just goodbye?
Of course it is. That doesn't mean every missing or grammatical mistake is an example of language evolving. Usually it's just carelessness or ignorance.
Carelessness or ignorance, believe it or not, evolve language. Have you heard of compound words?
I believe they are what people call a hypocrite, they have LOL in their username.
fyne wut evar ur rite having stan dardz sux u cant comlane cuz u no wat i mint
God be with ye
Thefact thatyour commentcan stillbe understood kindof disprovesyour point.
Beingpedantic aboutspaces andhyphens in anonline comment-section doesn’t makeyou a better-person.
Okay Luddite.
I apologize for knowing how to spell.
So where do we draw the line on when new words can’t be created anymore? Shakespeare? Wassup? Crunk? Your username even has LOL in it, I don’t think we should be taking language lessons from someone who parades that around….
An online forum lacking in content and engagement isn’t the place to make a stand against minor mistakes that don’t detract from the conversation.
What I'm making a stand against is the position that there's no such thing as bad grammar because it's all just language evolution.
If it gets in the way of communicating, sure. Butobviouslythatwasn’ttheissue here.
Is gofuckyourself a word?
It is to me.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/in-store?q=in-store