A lot of otherwise very well-spoken, college-educated, native-English-speaking programmers on YouTube have started with "run / ran / have ran". As in, "I've already ran it" and "It must be ran as an administrator." It's like an icepick through my skull.
I'd say it was correct in those places if its use was consistent, community-wide and not novel. "Have ran" though is none of those things in places like Salt Lake City and Seattle (where two of the YouTubers are located). Give it 20 years though and maybe it will be part of American English too.
The word "Library" comes from Latin libraria ‘bookstore’. You learn to spell by reading the words. It's basic spelling and reading fundamentals. This is the dumbing down of Americans. Making people too lazy to learn how to read a properly. "libary" might be the single best ironic example of that.
I’d always read slayed in the sense of “was fabulous” or “figuratively killed it” and slew in the sense of “literally killed someone”, but I could be wrong
I think this is a great demo of the connotational extensibility Borges really liked about English as a language. Because we have so many inconsistent grammatical paradigms and lexicons smashed together, you have a lot of room to coin neologisms that exploit connotative divergence to sound intuitive
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