We know because the guy who wrote it told us.

The guy who first wrote “eiland” spelled it as such. Then some idiot put an ‘s’ on it as a stylistic choice to latinize a word that has no Latin root. Now if you spell it any way other than “island” you are wrong because that is the way to word is used and understood.

Or, to put it another way, if you want to insist language is set in stone let me translate for you:

Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.

I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong

And here you are. The circle is complete.

That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.

If everyone is speeding on a road and not constantly getting into accidents does that not indicate that the posted speed limit is incorrect?

Are you stalking them around Lemmy to complain about their discord? Or did you go searching through their posting history for a whataboutism after they disagreed with you?

Either way it’s past time for you to touch grass.

Nah, just a family history of undiagnosed mental illness.

As I kid I was having auditory hallucinations at night when trying to sleep. I tried to tell my mom: “That’s because the house is haunted, you’re hearing the ghosts.”

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Also, my dad built the house. No one else has ever lived there.

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Sorry, I didn’t prioritize over the weekend checking in with my stalker.

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Stalking is an unhealthy form of obsession.

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Considering you are the sole downvote on all of my comments it’s doubtful we inhabit the same circles.

But if you want to spend your time following me around that’s less time you’re spending posting useless unhelpful comments, so that’s fine by me.

Hey @[email protected], your yawning emojis aren’t very convincing when I see that you are still actively following my account.

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Yes, did you try just telling people what kind of server instead of leaving passive aggressive replies?

A 30 minute be video is a big ask when I don’t know what it’s going to be about

And then they gave up in WoW and made Horde cartoonishly evil for no reason.