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credburn posted:As a kid I thought ash trays were rear end trays. Made sense; it's where you put cigarette butts 
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When Americans talk about "wiring" money, or "sending a wire", they just mean a bank transfer. It always seemed more complicated than that in films and tv.
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rollick posted:When Americans talk about "wiring" money, or "sending a wire", they just mean a bank transfer. It always seemed more complicated than that in films and tv. it used to be/can be, if you don't have someone's bank details. Western Union is the classic and they make it a bit of a hassle (need a cashiers check, need id, etc)
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InediblePenguin posted:My doctor pronounces larynx as larnyx every time.... This seems MORE difficult to say.
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Brawnfire posted:This seems MORE difficult to say. What did you think all those hours in doctor school went into?
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rollick posted:When Americans talk about "wiring" money, or "sending a wire", they just mean a bank transfer. It always seemed more complicated than that in films and tv. There's nothing really qualitatively different about any of the networks, they're all just different combinations of finality/settlement speed/cost/etc... The ones that get called 'wiring money' are typically more final, faster, and more expensive so they get used for big transactions like buying a house.
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Foxfire_ posted:'Bank transfer' means some context dependent payment network. In Europe, it's probably going to mean a system specific to that country or group of participating countries with no reach beyond that. And where doesn't it mean that? What system can transfer funds beyond the reach of said system?
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I can. Give me your money
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Outkast's "So Fresh, So Clean" is from the same album as "Ms Jackson". I'm finally getting around to listening to the whole album, to see if I like it, before I buy it. So far so good. e: ha! apparently it's literally the track just before, too.
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Hyperlynx posted:Outkast's "So Fresh, So Clean" is from the same album as "Ms Jackson". Stankonia... good? Next you'll be telling us about this young up and comer called Eminem or that Radiohead has radically changed their sound on Kid A. You have so much music to catch up on! Edit: And if you're just getting around to Stankonia now, I mean that last bit sincerely.
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stratdax posted:Stankonia... good? I only ever heard those two aforementioned songs. I've recently been going back to "oh hey that song from 20 years ago was great, was the rest of the album any good?" with mixed results. The rest of Stankonia seems pretty good, very listenable, but not as phenomenal as those two tracks (though maybe that's just due to familiarity). And I can't remember who it was, but there was another group who sadly seemed to be a one-hit wonder. On the other hand, I finally went and listened to the rest of Age of Winters by The Sword, who I only know from Freya being included in Guitar Hero 2, and it turns out I love the rest of the album just as much.
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Hyperlynx posted:I only ever heard those two aforementioned songs. That's because you're 20 years removed from the context of the music when it was created. Music is a living reflection of the surrounding culture (and trends happening in the music scene at that specific time) and when you listen to a groundbreaking (or even, of the time) album after the fact, suddenly it doesn't seem so groundbreaking/of the time anymore. Those tracks on Stankonia that you bounced off might have been completely fresh and trend-setting and unlike anything else at the time. But because music has been influenced by it and iterated on it so much you don't really see what's so special.
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Probably, yeah  But OTOH I went back to listen to Fear of a Black Tangent by Busdriver, and Power In Numbers and Quality Control by Jurassic Five, and British Steel and Painkiller by Judas Priest by pretty much the same process, and I loved them. So maybe, maybe not. EE: at any rate: yeah, I am literally catching up on music I missed out on. I didn't buy a lot of CDs back in the day, and I refused to Napster music. These days I have the money to spare, so I buy music off of Bandcamp or Qobuz or failing that iTunes, because that gets the highest percentage of the money to the artist. EEE: "Jurassic Park"?! What in the ungodly gently caress?  I'm going to blame my phone for that Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 12:45 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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I know so little that I don’t even know what Stuff I Just Figured Out is ridiculous enough to post
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"author" is the root word of "authorise"
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I got hundreds of cavities in my early to mid twenties because I didn't know I was supposed to brush the whole tooth, not just the tip.
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InediblePenguin posted:My doctor pronounces larynx as larnyx every time.... freeedr posted:One of our providers mispronounces so many things but I always notice how he can’t say “dyspnea” and says “dipsnea” instead I wonder if there is a word for this phenomena, because it isn't just a mistake a few people make. Most times I hear the word nuclear, they pronounce it "new-cue-ler" (that isn't just W. Bush), or jewelry as "ju-la-ree", or realtor/realty as "reel-a-tor/reel-a-tee". Of course everyone knows about "ath-a-lete". These pronunciations used to bother me when I young man with a linguistic stick up my rear end, but now I celebrate these kinds of quirks, especially since there is a reason for it. Does still kinda bug me when fentanyl is pronounced "fent-in-ALL" Edit: I realize the kind of mispronunciation I'm talking about is different than the ones I quoted lmao. Sorry about that caspergers has a new favorite as of 14:09 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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Dip Viscous posted:I got hundreds of cavities in my early to mid twenties because I didn't know I was supposed to brush the whole tooth, not just the tip. Holy poo poo. (Ur teeth, that is.) 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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We’ve all fallen for the ol’ “just the tip” once or twice
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caspergers posted:These pronunciations used to bother me when I young man with a linguistic stick up my rear end, but now I celebrate these kinds of quirks, especially since there is a reason for it. One of my "favorites" is "foil-age" (foliage). And the one in your spoiler is especially grating when you hear it a thousand times on Intervention, even/often out of the mouths of trained interventionists. 
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I'm not usually big on prescriptivism because ultimately if a word gets mispronounced long enough, it'll just become the new word and people will be none the wiser (see "what" vs Old English "hwat"). But the one that actually bothers me is when people use "ambivalent" to mean "apathetic" or impassive. That's because ambivalent actually means "strong feelings in opposition," which is difficult to communicate in a single word while there are many ways in English to say you don't care.
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When I point out someone just used a word that means literally the opposite of what they were trying to say and that's why I was confused, they always act like I'm a pedant instead of just trying to figure out what they're saying. It's like getting mad I gave you a screwdriver when you said you needed to screw something in, and saying "obviously I meant a nail, you pedant, i just said screw"
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I know somebody who thought that brushing your teeth was literally just a cosmetic thing so she only did it in the morning, and only if she was going out that day 6 root canals and a 15k dentist bill, no insurance
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exquisite tea posted:I'm not usually big on prescriptivism because ultimately if a word gets mispronounced long enough, it'll just become the new word and people will be none the wiser (see "what" vs Old English "hwat"). But the one that actually bothers me is when people use "ambivalent" to mean "apathetic" or impassive. That's because ambivalent actually means "strong feelings in opposition," which is difficult to communicate in a single word while there are many ways in English to say you don't care. Am I missing something? merriam-webster posted:having or showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward something or someone Because that still works for "I can't make a decision either way, I've got feelings on both" doesn't it?
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exquisite tea posted:ambivalent actually means "strong feelings in opposition," To be clear, because I misunderstood what you were saying at first, it means strong feelings in opposition to each other, not strong feelings in opposition to the idea. It means you have mixed feelings or mixed emotions about an idea, and relates to being apathetic about two choices because both cause indecisiveness. Yeah, the one is more nuanced but it's easy to see where the confusion would come from when both result in "I don't know, you pick." Baron von Eevl has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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Brawnfire posted:When I point out someone just used a word that means literally the opposite of what they were trying to say and that's why I was confused, they always act like I'm a pedant instead of just trying to figure out what they're saying. exquisite tea posted:I'm not usually big on prescriptivism because ultimately if a word gets mispronounced long enough, it'll just become the new word and people will be none the wiser (see "what" vs Old English "hwat"). But the one that actually bothers me is when people use "ambivalent" to mean "apathetic" or impassive. That's because ambivalent actually means "strong feelings in opposition," which is difficult to communicate in a single word while there are many ways in English to say you don't care. This is pretty much what's been happening with the word "apparently". Most people use it to mean supposedly/allegedly, but it actually means obviously; apparent means clear, which is obvious enough. Now this may have started as ironic or possibly hyerbolic (which we all know happened to "literally"), but I've seen it used as supposedly dating back to the 50s, in which case it's almost entirely lost its original meaning; this must be what happened the words awful and terrific. But I'm not up my own rear end about it, cuz I use apparently as supposedly. Hell, one of my stage jokes I use it as supposedly, mostly because "supposedly" will sound pretentious to an audience.
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a troglodyte is not the same thing as a trilobite. i thought calling someone a troglodyte was comparing them to an ancient little bug creature. i guess i thought this because "troglobites" are animals that live in caves. a trifecta of confusion for me
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caspergers posted:I wonder if there is a word for this phenomena, because it isn't just a mistake a few people make. Most times I hear the word nuclear, they pronounce it "new-cue-ler" (that isn't just W. Bush), or jewelry as "ju-la-ree", or realtor/realty as "reel-a-tor/reel-a-tee". Of course everyone knows about "ath-a-lete". These pronunciations used to bother me when I young man with a linguistic stick up my rear end, but now I celebrate these kinds of quirks, especially since there is a reason for it. Nu-cue-ler is a real common one but I don't know about these other examples. I don't hear people say real-a-tor or ju-la-ree or ath-a-leet. But I also live in the PNW, which I've heard some people say is a place in America that has "no accent." I'm no linguist and this can probably be debunked immediately, but I will say that I find it striking how little flair our manner of speaking has. When I think of "ath-a-leet," what comes to mind is a kind of lazy sounding drawl, like a Texan accent; not so much a mispronunciation but just a flair of the accent. I don't know, though I try to pronounce things correctly, I've been anal about it my whole life, but there are one or two words I just cannot ever pronounce correctly without it sounding extremely strained and awkward. Like "asked." If I try to articulate the SK and the D, it almost sounds like two syllables. I'll always just say "ast"
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caspergers posted:This is pretty much what's been happening with the word "apparently". Most people use it to mean supposedly/allegedly, but it actually means obviously; apparent means clear, which is obvious enough. Now this may have started as ironic or possibly hyerbolic (which we all know happened to "literally"), but I've seen it used as supposedly dating back to the 50s, in which case it's almost entirely lost its original meaning; this must be what happened the words awful and terrific. I always took "apparently" to mean "in light of recent information". As in, it appears that this is the case. Sometimes snidely implying that information is dubious.
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Sometimes you're implying the surface reading is so clear it renders further considerations unnecessary, sometimes you're implying the surface reading says one thing, but you're not definite there isn't more to it.
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Allegedly.
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Brawnfire posted:Apparently. https://youtu.be/FEs12v_9NX4
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I often use "apparently" in the context of "it has become apparent to me", like apparently that thing is called an aglet.
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I use the synonym of apparently, no doy while I flap my hand against my chest
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Len posted:Am I missing something? Being either ambivalent or apathetic can make you feel indecisive, but it's the way in which you arrive at that state that defines their individual meanings. Ambivalent literally means "strong (feelings) on all sides," which implies that your thoughts are clashing with each other, whereas apathetic signifies impassivity or a lack of emotion. Ambivalent is a cool word to me because we don't really have many ways in English to describe a state of highly mixed emotions.
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