Oh Hey There

I'm a linguist and a young person. I live near Eau Claire, WI at the moment.

I’m not above a little pedantry with respect to semantic language change. I dislike the use of “random” as in “that’s so random”—i.e. unexpected. Is this a battle worth fighting though? No. Everyone knows what random means when you talk about rolling dice. [*insert joke about the human mind being inherently bad at statistics*]

Edit: Nice conversation going on in the comments.

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