Do you even math ? 😏

@NankerPhelge Aye I gotta stop using those Murican dictionaries 😏

@SW-User The two dictionaries I still use are the 1970 Oxford English Dictionary (which I used in school) and the 1968 Newnes Family Reference Dictionary (which I used at home). Nobody can go wrong using those dictionaries.

@NankerPhelge Can't go wrong unless you go online or step outside.

@Mamapolo2016 Never trust online dictionaries.

@NankerPhelge Yabbit, most of the language in use today does not appear in 1968 dictionaries. One can be correct, or one can understand at least a smidgin of what's going on.

@Mamapolo2016 Why doesn't it appear in 1968 dictionaries? How are you expected to describe things that happened in 1968?

@NankerPhelge You can describe 1968 in terms that existed then. In 1968 there was no occasion to explain events like, 'She met him as he was trolling on SW, but when she learned he was binary and cisgender, she ghosted him.'

@Mamapolo2016 In 1968, that would be talking about 50 years into the future. I like to talk about things that happened 50 years ago as of now. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge Me too.

@Mamapolo2016 One example would be that nobody bought the latest Beatles or Rolling Stones records on CD, because CDs had not yet been invented. People bought them on vinyl then because that was the only available format. How would we describe that in today's language that wasn't in 1968 dictionaries?

@NankerPhelge Unless you're talking to antiquities dealers or people our age, it doesn't matter how you describe it because they're not going to understand it anyway.

Of course you can use dictionaries with real words. You can write as you please. If you want to read, though, you need a translation.

@Mamapolo2016 I understand language from 50 years ago far better than I'll ever understand a lot of today's seemingly meaningless mumbo-jumbo. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge You're not SUPPOSED to understand it. That's the point!

@NankerPhelge We are living Animal Farm.

@Mamapolo2016 What's the point in that? How are people supposed to communicate if they don't understand each other?

Talking of Animal Farm, did you know the Kinks did a song called that? It's on the 1968 album "The Village Green Preservation Society" (one of my all-time favourite albums).
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@NankerPhelge Yes, I did. To call themselves the Kinks seems so naive now. I must go. Fun chatting.

@Mamapolo2016 I don't know for sure why they chose the name the Kinks, but it stuck and they were successful. They still have a major following now after 50 years.