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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

If you want to know, it’s “en masse” not “on mass”. I would want to know, and then dive deeper onto where it came from and why we still say it regularly.

If you didn’t want to know and I just seem like some jerk correcting you, pop me a downvote and I’ll delete the comment.

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I love a good correction and I support any chance to encourage people to delve into etymologies!

Of course I also love language change and all language that people use is correct language, so I'm on mass for life.

Thank you!

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