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Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If it gets in the way of communicating, sure. Butobviouslythatwasn’ttheissue here.