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Brawnfire posted:I remember a heated discussion where a kid in my class insisted on the centrifugal force thing "being obvious from observation" and my physics teacher was just more and more angrily making diagrams on the whiteboard, like you could detect the rising irritation in the resulting marks She was right. Cold allergy is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_urticaria
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This isn't really a major revelation, but I kind of never bothered to actually think through the lyrics to the chorus of Eve 6's "Inside Out" and figure out whether or not they form a coherent thought, and I'm here to report that they do. Unsurprisingly, it's basically a very flowery way of saying "I'm angsty". He doesn't even have any pride he could swallow, and he doesn't even have any faith he could turn back to, so don't bother asking him to do that. (And, more straightforwardly, he would like to put his heart in a blender.)
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Organza Quiz posted:If it's such a common "mistake" that everyone uses it that way and everyone understands what each other means, it is not a mistake it is proper communication. Usually when this happens, dictionaries add alternate definitions to cover the usage, but I can't find any. fizzymercury posted:Yeah but I thought it's the thing that's difficult to understand and not the thing that isn't understanding which is how I misuse obtuse. This is confusing the hell out of me to parse but I think you're correct? By way of example: Federal tax law is abstruse. A person who thinks they found "one weird trick" to not have to file federal taxes is obtuse. KillHour has a new favorite as of 16:21 on Dec 14, 2022 |
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Dec 14, 2022 16:11
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Eels posted:She was right. Cold allergy is a real thing. This is infinitely more satisfying. Take that, you dipshit old bio teacher! Stick to the Krebs cycle!
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Dec 14, 2022 16:12
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KillHour posted:Usually when this happens, dictionaries add alternate definitions to cover the usage, but I can't find any. An extremely quick google shows merriam-webster has it as an alternate definition at the very least.
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Organza Quiz posted:An extremely quick google shows merriam-webster has it as an alternate definition at the very least. Hmm, you appear to be correct. Anyways, this came up when I used it that way a few months ago and my partner was like "uh...no that's wrong" and when I looked it up I felt literally crazy.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:00
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Conversations like this are why my high school encouraged me not to take the SATs. I found out this morning that my husband thought Chet Atkins and Eric Clapton are the same guy until he met me. I'm very confused.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:31
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fizzymercury posted:Conversations like this are why my high school encouraged me not to take the SATs. If it makes you feel better, I have no idea who Chet Atkins is either.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwTD89Ry28 Eric Clapton wishes he was Chet Atkins.
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Organza Quiz posted:If it's such a common "mistake" that everyone uses it that way and everyone understands what each other means, it is not a mistake it is proper communication. The fluidity of language is something I hate. I depend on rigid rules to communicate with others, but the rules of language are only really strongly adhered to in academia. In actual communication with human beings, whether or not a word is being misused is entirely dependent on how wide the misuse is -- or, frustratingly, how well one knows the broadness of the misuse. I know this is perhaps an obnoxious example, but when something is "literally" something, it means it is either literal or the opposite of literal, and you only know by inferring from the context or by knowing the person using the word. I suck at inferring anything, so most of the time this word means nothing at all to me. It's not infrequent that someone will say a word to me, a word I only really know one definition of, but because of YouTubers / TikTokers / Television shows / Something funny Ye said / A meme, it means something different but until I am made aware of it, I look like an idiot. Yesterday a friend of mine said something was "based," to which I understand as meaning "grounded." Nope! Doesn't mean that at all! I was told it means the opposite of "cringe," which I know as a verb, but it is not a verb! I know what anthimeria is and I know it's a useful tool with which to communicate, and it's also not like a new thing. But to use it effectively, all parties involved need to be on the same page. To make a point, I used a turtle as an example. A turtle (n) is slow. An old lady crossing the street might turtle (v) across the street. That's mostly understood just fine. But to say that woman is turtle (adj) -- well, now that just sounds dumb, even though it follows the same rules as all this other bullshit  \/\/ I've never heard this term used this way until yesterday \/\/ edit: I'm 38 
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Dec 14, 2022 21:27
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You don't know Based? What are you like sixty
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I think you just murdered credburn
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Young people change what words mean so they can laugh at old people who complain about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
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KillHour posted:Young people change what words mean so they can laugh at old people who complain about it. Oh man, this whomps
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Gaius Marius posted:You don't know Based? What are you like sixty Yes, I am. I didn't know what it meant either.
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I still don't.
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This thread is praxis
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It exploded and spilled George Takei's tea? E for content: the person who came up with the joke about "chess nuts boasting in an open foyer" probably intended the American "foy-yerr" pronunciation rather than "foy-yay" Phy has a new favorite as of 03:58 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Dec 15, 2022 03:55
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'Hemi', 'demi' and 'semi' all mean 'half'* but they arrived in English via Greek, Latin and French, respectively. Real obvious in retrospect but I just never thought about it before. * They meant 'half' originally but their current usage varies, 'semi' is often used to mean 'partially' Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 08:58 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Dec 15, 2022 05:40
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:'Hemi', 'demi' and 'semi' all mean 'half'* but they arrived in English via Greek, Latina and French, respectively. Real obvious in retrospect but I just never thought about it before. I guess this makes sense for why a hemi-demi-semiquaver is what it is, and it's cool that it uses all of them to make it clearer than semi-semi-semiquaver would be.
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Phy posted:It exploded and spilled George Takei's tea? Foy-yay is pure pretension, people get caught up trying to pronounce the yay "frenchly" and don't realize they gently caress up the entire first half of the word.
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Or maybe enough people pronounce it that way, and are understood, that it’s also correct.
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The Maestro posted:Or maybe enough people pronounce it that way, and are understood, that it’s also correct. Yeah, it's cool to know 'foyer' is pronounced 'foyer' by "smart" people. But still, descriptivism rules and prescriptivism drools. If a student in you class axes you a question maybe don't be a total rear end in a top hat and derail your own stupid lecture to fix them. You know drat well what they meant.
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Epic and pwned were stupid, based and cringe are currently stupid, and I am eagerly awaiting Gen Z to hit 35 or so and go "what the gently caress were we thinking" while rolling their eyes at whatever stupid poo poo Gen A will inevitably come up with.
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e: I can't believe I just figured out how to shut the gently caress up and stop posting rambling bullshit
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That took me years. Sometimes I even avoid it before hitting "post", but rarely.
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Gaius Marius posted:Foy-yay is pure pretension, people get caught up trying to pronounce the yay "frenchly" and don't realize they gently caress up the entire first half of the word. nah*. it's kind of like arguing that nobody says bourgeois correctly because they only hit the last syllable. this kind of thing generally goes oddly in American English. my favorite example is Vallejo: it ends up being valleho and not bayjaho. we picked one thing to follow. or the kind of folk etymology that turns chaise longue into chaise lounge, even by people who say they get mad at that kind of thing. *but I've never heard anyone say foyay in American English except incredibly sarcastically. credburn posted:I know what anthimeria is I did not. gracias.
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I can't believe that these teenagers, who have (one presumes) grown up speaking English, are describing pizza -- pizza fresh from the very oven, mind you -- as being cool
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Empty Sandwich posted:*but I've never heard anyone say foyay in American English except incredibly sarcastically. I have literally never heard it pronounced any other way and it took me a while to figure out what the gently caress you people were talking about
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I've heard both pretty regularly though foy-er is more common.
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"Renumerate" isn't a word.
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FO-yurr is American English and fo-YAY is how it's pronounced in Canada. Similar to how "niche" in America is nitch and in Canada is neesh. Canada tends to lean further into French pronunciation for obvious reasons.
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The Moon Monster posted:"Renumerate" isn't a word. It's in the dictionary though e: oh gently caress
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To me ( ), fillet and foyer are pronounced how they look. Saying them like they rhyme feels like a hyperforeignism.E: just looked on Wiktionary, and I'm right about fillet but wrong about foyer (etymologically speaking).
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I wanted that one to catch on
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The Moon Monster posted:"Renumerate" isn't a word. See: remunerate
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i GREET MY GUESTS IN THE LOBBY sorry caps was on
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impossiboobs posted:FO-yurr is American English and fo-YAY is how it's pronounced in Canada. Similar to how "niche" in America is nitch and in Canada is neesh. Canada tends to lean further into French pronunciation for obvious reasons. who the gently caress says nitch? I’ve never met anyone that knows the meaning but not the pronunciation.
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I've heard it both ways here in the ol US
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