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hot cocoa on the couch posted:they're bnoth wrong and the right way is the french way, "GEE-ja-tin". actually GEE-lain MAX-well, thanks
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Call Your Grandma posted:cement is the powdered form. the word you are looking for is concrete.  quote:What is the difference between cement and concrete? https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete/cement-and-concrete-basics-faqs
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It bothers me when movies/shows/games/books/people use military units completely interchangeably like there is no conceptual difference between them. Squad, Platoon, Company, Battalion, Regiment, Brigade, Division etc are all just thrown about without any logic whatsoever, just as a "Group of military dudes". The latest Star Wars show mentioned "an entire Imperial regiment" stationed somewhere and it's like 3 dozen guys.
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that's literally what said
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the Middle East as a monolith, at all; especially when including Iran and Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan as the "Middle East"
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I was reading an academic article by a big name psychologist, and had an almost audible record scratch moment when I saw him use "visa versa" instead of "vice versa." I'm assuming he was a big enough name that nobody was brave enough to correct him.
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people with message you with business but say hey what's up first or, hey are you free first and wait for you to respond
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I was reading an academic article by a big name psychologist, and had an almost audible record scratch moment when I saw him use "visa versa" instead of "vice versa." I'm assuming he was a big enough name that nobody was brave enough to correct him. Pronouncing the "vice" part with two syllables is the more traditional form, and closer to the original Latin pronunciation. If you really want to get pedantic about it, in Latin it would be pronounced "weeka wersa"  edit: drat it, for some reason I read your post as saying that you heard him say it this way, as opposed to seeing it in print 
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Oct 6, 2022 19:40
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Delerium, and Angle.
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Bad Purchase posted:is this supposed to be about the usage of "good" (adjective) vs. "well" (adverb or adjective)?
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I'm not gonna lie I have contempt for any FLE who is worse at their drat language than me, because my English loving sucks and yet somehow there are FLEs who call angels angles and I'm like, how, why, just, how, how I once worked in a space game and seeing files like hanger.fbx made me die inside. It's hangar. Aaaaaaaaa
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Elentor posted:I'm not gonna lie I have contempt for any FLE who is worse at their drat language than me, because my English loving sucks and yet somehow there are FLEs who call angels angles and I'm like, how, why, just, how, how In Japan, EFL students are usually extremely afraid of making mistakes and thus never practice. To encourage them, I tell them that my father is a native English speaker, who speaks only English, yet doesn't know how to spell or pronounce "women" and instead says and writes "wimen". My cousin can't spell "career".
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Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but it is a Nordic country.
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Shadow0 posted:Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but it is a Nordic country. oh word? then how come finnish drivers invented and perfected the scandinavian flick?
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:oh word? then how come finnish drivers invented and perfected the scandinavian flick? The same way Taco Bell perfected Living Más.
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Shadow0 posted:The same way Taco Bell perfected Living Más. hmm. good point
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Shadow0 posted:Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but it is a Nordic country. This bugs me too but I keep extra quiet about it because I'm enough of a sweeb already
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Mister Speaker posted:'Regime/regimen' bugs me similarly. Any time someone talks about their "fitness regime" I picture like, some repressive military dictatorship holding a parade that involves weird crossfit routines. fitness regiment
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Shadow0 posted:Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but it is a Nordic country. I lost a pub quiz because I refused to put "Denmark" as the answer to a question that involved Scandinavia.
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Pladdicus posted:people with message you with business but say hey what's up first or, hey are you free first and wait for you to respond Reply with https://nohello.net/en/ If your work is full of people who have to come to you with questions, you can also put in https://dontasktoask.com/
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Devils Affricate posted:in Latin it would be pronounced "weeka wersa" I thought the jury was still out on this; that there's contention among historians about the 'V'/'W' sounds. Or that it's actually a third phoneme somewhere in between that we don't have anymore.
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Mister Speaker posted:I thought the jury was still out on this; that there's contention among historians about the 'V'/'W' sounds. Or that it's actually a third phoneme somewhere in between that we don't have anymore. Nooclear.... vwvwweeessels
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I don't think this one has been mentioned, but don't really care if it has. Seeing people use OP to refer to anyone other than the person who started a thread is really irritating. I know it's one of those things a lot of people have started doing simply because it is annoying, and saying anything about it will just encourage them, but it really is annoying. Edit: On reflection, OP is also acceptable as an abbreviation referring to the first post - the OP of the thread. It can be the originator of a thread, or the first post of a thread, BUT IT CAN'T BE ANYTHING ELSE. Well, unless you're referring to being OP in a videogame, but that's a completely different thing. CaptainSarcastic fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I don't think this one has been mentioned, but don't really care if it has. Seeing people use OP to refer to anyone other than the person who started a thread is really irritating. I know it's one of those things a lot of people have started doing simply because it is annoying, and saying anything about it will just encourage them, but it really is annoying. Agreed (op)
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yeti friend posted:Agreed (op) The parenthesis are confusing me enough to stay my probe finger. For now.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I don't think this one has been mentioned, but don't really care if it has. Seeing people use OP to refer to anyone other than the person who started a thread is really irritating. I know it's one of those things a lot of people have started doing simply because it is annoying, and saying anything about it will just encourage them, but it really is annoying. I get the feeling some folks think OP stands for "Other Poster." Thing is, I'm pretty sure I just figured it meant "Original Poster" on my own years ago so for all I know maybe I'm the mistaken one!
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it stands for "ordinary poster" and can be used to refer to any poster without rank or title
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No, it's original, and probably derived from OG. Unless you want to debate what OG means, which I advise against.
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Pretty sure it's ghee-oh-teen in American. No idea what you other idiots call it ghee-yah-teen is also common maybe more so Wendigee fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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That is of course ordinary goon
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Like clarified butter you moron
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yeti friend posted:That is of course ordinary goon Ice T is going to personally show up at your door now, and you won't like what he's bringing.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I don't think this one has been mentioned, but don't really care if it has. Seeing people use OP to refer to anyone other than the person who started a thread is really irritating. I know it's one of those things a lot of people have started doing simply because it is annoying, and saying anything about it will just encourage them, but it really is annoying. Would you prefer PP (Previous Poster)? PP 
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whats wrong op? you lick spittle! epic trylls guy changed the forum nomenclature. accept it; it now just means anyone you are talking to because he's a massive moron and it escaped the quarantine thread.. as a "joke" Wendigee fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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Wendigee posted:whats wrong op? you lick spittle! Your posting is what's wrong.  And if you're making a reverse psychology argument to go back to GBS 1.0 rules, I'm listening. Edit: Fer crissakes, how many edits do you need to make?
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Okay op  Edit: all the edits mi hermano!
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I used to be a stickler for the oxford comma. Now I prefer going without. It’s sometimes useful but for every example where the oxford comma clears up confusion, it’s really not hard to create one where the opposite happens. Some people still swear by it and won’t shut up. It’s a punctuation mark, don’t make it part of your personality, dweeb.
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Vegetable posted:I used to be a stickler for the oxford comma. Now I prefer going without. It’s sometimes useful but for every example where the oxford comma clears up confusion, it’s really not hard to create one where the opposite happens. Some people still swear by it and won’t shut up. It’s a punctuation mark, don’t make it part of your personality, dweeb. You have every right to be completely wrong.
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