WesDym

@Grimy Get over yourself.

And goodbye. There’s plenty of hopelessly tiresome people online already, and no one needs more.

And grow the fuck up already.

@Grimy Canadian English is a dialect. So is US English. And both have sub-dialects, as well as registers. These are real differences that really do affect how specific words are used and understood.

@Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

Things aren’t true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

Essentialism isn’t merely poor forensics. It’s very literally gotten millions of people killed.

We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

I don’t believe you actually KNOW the facts.

@Grimy Maybe. But unless you can produce a source, it sounds to me like you’re only guessing, and forming an essentialism from your feelings and assumptions rather than from evidence.

@Grimy Believe it or not, different dialects may have different meanings for the same words.