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The danish dictionary just got updated so for instance a son-in-law can be married to your daughter or your son 
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purple death ray posted:A married couple is not 3-5 people though Give it another 20-30 years.
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Listening to NPR in the car today, I found out that hair-metal frontman Kip Winger (of the band Winger) now composes classical music. His high-school girlfriend was taking ballet lessons, and none of her friends did, so he offered to take lessons and practice with her (), and liked the music. So when hair metal went out of style, he turned to classical. Of course they did the S&M thing, probably scored by Kip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIfehdhslk In a similar weird genre jump, Buster Poindexter (of "Hot! Hot! Hot!" fame) is actually David Johansen of the punk band New York Dolls -- calypso is his passion, punk paid the bills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5Uf7Hs5c4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18 See also Hank Williams 3, he prefers to front a "hellbilly" band (rockabilly-influenced metal), but sings like his grandpa to pay his child support. Apparently his live shows are half country, intermission in which they do a bunch of drugs, and then swap out the acoustic instruments for electric, and then metal insanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkLfYR1Gco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehJsUKfXcWo Edit: Hank3 also made the first country album to carry a Parental Advisory Warning label. He sounds just like Hank1, but cusses a lot more. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 21:51 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Jun 18, 2018 21:43
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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purple death ray posted:Well the truth is that neither party is right. Clinging to dictionary definitions of words is essentially admitting that you've lost the argument. Language is defined by the people speaking it and there's tons of things in common usage that aren't "right" according to the dictionary. If neither party is completely right then the millions and millions of people using the word as it's defined in the dictionary are still way way more right than the handful of people using it differently. purple death ray posted:All I know is I mostly encounter the "words mean things!!" crowd when someone is trying to deny some group of people rights, such as clinging to a dictionary that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, or being extremely literal about racial distinctions so they can deny being huge racists (Islam isn't a race! You're the real bigot!). On the flipside there's also a growing trend for conservative politicians and media pundits using 'weasel words' like "illegal" or "urban" or "un-American values" as dog whistles instead of using the words as they've traditionally been used in the past.
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Jun 19, 2018 10:42
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Aphrodite posted:The dictionary definition of moot is the opposite of moot. Because dictionaries are typically descriptionist and “literally” is often used hyperbolically in an non-literal way. I’ve never actually found it difficult to suss out which definition is in play in actual conversation, sadly the dictionary only defines context as: “the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.”
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Jun 19, 2018 16:06
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I'm pretty sure dictionaries already define words that are frequently used in sarcastic or ironic contexts so I don't know why "literally" has become such a symbolic battlefield.
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Jun 19, 2018 16:11
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Aphrodite posted:The dictionary definition of moot is the opposite of moot.  I've never encountered this usage
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Jun 19, 2018 16:18
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Barudak posted:The people who believes it only means two are agressive. Its happened to me a couple of times where How many times?
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Jun 19, 2018 16:33
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Lincoln posted:How many times? Not sure how I could be more clear, exactly one metric couple
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Jun 19, 2018 18:59
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Holding down the refresh button by the url on an iPhone allows you to request the desktop version of any site.
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Jun 19, 2018 19:02
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dirksteadfast posted:Holding down the refresh button by the url on an iPhone allows you to request the desktop version of any site. 
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Jun 19, 2018 20:00
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If you're using Chrome on mobile in general you can tap the menu button in the top right and click "request desktop site" because the Chrome devs didn't feel like hiding that button
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Mexico City is Tenochtitlan. e: Also Mesoamerica literally just means Middle America 
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Jun 24, 2018 09:44
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check the voynich herbal imo
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Jun 24, 2018 12:19
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I didn't know that a video game controller can be used in place of a mouse to move the cursor and interact with visual elements on a computer.
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Low-key embarassing: I just realized how legitimately good a phone's voice-to-text feature can be. I saved a bunch of Higher-hey embarrassing: I just realized that the KFC logo on the right that stares me in the face when I hate myself to get some drive-through KFC chicken is actually the Colonel and his bow tie underneath, and not just a cartoon stick figure depiction of hands and legs. I knew it was weird because I knew they never used a huge-headed-high-detailed head tiny-simple-bodied body in any marketing, but it took me until to today to go "oh yeah, dude wore a bow tie and thats a bow-tie, you dingus."
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MisterBibs posted:Higher-hey embarrassing: I just realized that the KFC logo on the right that stares me in the face when I hate myself to get some drive-through KFC chicken is actually the Colonel and his bow tie underneath, and not just a cartoon stick figure depiction of hands and legs. I knew it was weird because I knew they never used a huge-headed-high-detailed head tiny-simple-bodied body in any marketing, but it took me until to today to go "oh yeah, dude wore a bow tie and thats a bow-tie, you dingus." God drat it. Now I can’t see anything OTHER than bobble-head Sanders doing a jig with a stick-person body.
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Jun 25, 2018 12:32
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The_White_Crane posted:No, no, it's fine. You just say that demanding "a couple" be used to refer only to two things isn't "prescriptivist" because the word "prescriptivist" means "comprised of raw camel flesh". I abuse language rules all the time in conversation, and it's often because I'm too tired to think of the exact word, but the word I come out with has unambiguous meaning and clearly communicates my intent. It's also more fun than using the proper terms for things. I think that's the way to go - if your meaning is understood well enough then go for it. I think I described the taste of some food as "stinky" the other day. Taste isn't smell, but it got my point across.
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Hyperlynx posted:I abuse language rules all the time in conversation, and it's often because I'm too tired to think of the exact word, but the word I come out with has unambiguous meaning and clearly communicates my intent. It's also more fun than using the proper terms for things. I think that's the way to go - if your meaning is understood well enough then go for it. I think I described the taste of some food as "stinky" the other day. Taste isn't smell, but it got my point across. Are you a four year old?
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Jun 26, 2018 13:44
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Tanzania does not rhyme with Tasmania.
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Jun 26, 2018 17:21
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Anime rhymes with a mime.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:19
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Jerry Cotton posted:Anime rhymes with a mime. You can't just say "a mime" and not tell us which mime
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Jun 26, 2018 19:47
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Mimes don't make a sound
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Jun 26, 2018 19:55
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The word 'boatswain' is pronounced 'bosun'. I always thought they were two different things.
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The Bloop posted:
The only time most people have was if they read LOTR when it talked about Ent moots.
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cyberia posted:The word 'boatswain' is pronounced 'bosun'. I always thought they were two different things. poo poo
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cyberia posted:The word 'boatswain' is pronounced 'bosun'. I always thought they were two different things. Similarly, coxswain is pronounced “cocks’n”. It’s meaningless to me because I’ve not heard the word once outside of the 1996 Summer Olympics, but there you have it.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Are you a four year old? "I'm so articulate I use words like 'stinky'  "Yes, fair enough. Not the best example.
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Blackguard is "Blagard"
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Jun 29, 2018 00:20
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iZombie has a minor recurring character named Floyd Baracus. He's the district attorney, and the boss of one of the major recurring characters. It took me until midway through the second season to realize the joke in his name: he's D.A. Baracus.
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Besesoth posted:iZombie has a minor recurring character named Floyd Baracus. He's the district attorney, and the boss of one of the major recurring characters. It took me until midway through the second season to realize the joke in his name: he's D.A. Baracus. Almost everything in iZombie has a pun in its name. Typical Rob Thomas shenanigans 
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Jun 29, 2018 03:22
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My wife's been watching that show and I had to explain that joke to her. She didn't care.
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Jun 29, 2018 03:33
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cyberia posted:The word 'boatswain' is pronounced 'bosun'. I always thought they were two different things. KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Similarly, coxswain is pronounced “cocks’n”. It’s meaningless to me because I’ve not heard the word once outside of the 1996 Summer Olympics, but there you have it. Do they live together in the forecastle?
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Jun 29, 2018 06:39
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Baron von Eevl posted:My wife's been watching that show and I had to explain that joke to her. She didn't care. I always liked Meat Cute and Romero's.
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Jun 29, 2018 08:47
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Pookah posted:Do they live together in the forecastle? They're both ratings rather than officers, so: yes, I think so. At least, on a ye olde sailing ship.
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Jun 29, 2018 10:26
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iajanus posted:I always liked Meat Cute and Romero's. Clever
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Jun 29, 2018 10:36
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Randaconda posted:Clever Filmore Graves was a good antagonist organisation.
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Jun 29, 2018 11:14
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Pookah posted:Do they live together in the forecastle? Slurping up Worcestershire sauce, sure thing
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Jun 29, 2018 13:31
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Oh poo poo guys it’s HARE-oh-in, not heh-ROYN gently caress
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actually HE-rowin'
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