I really hate the use of equity as a replacement for equality. It seems that apparently they have different meanings, but not THAT different and maybe we could have just updated the meaning on the one word.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Saki’s Tobermory was very eloquent: I guess our estimation of cat’s intelligence has gone down over the last century.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 29 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
Birds are sketchy on grammar and also full of themselves:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/269/929/cc9.jpg_large
― Josefa, Saturday, 29 February 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
borb
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 29 February 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
What everyone really needs to accept is that it’s horribly grating to hear anyone say anything that anyone else has ever said before
― devops mom (silby), Friday, July 6, 2018 6:18 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:41 AM (one year ago)
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 2 March 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
I was talking on Facebook about VP picks earlier tonight with a friend: "I'm not as deadset against Harris as I was, though still a bit worried about the whole stupid 'lanes' business."
"Lanes" is (are?) everywhere right now. The entire political spectrum has been transformed into a bowling alley.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 March 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
Trying to tell my inner pedant to calm down when it sees 'epicentre' used re: this outbreak.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
i'm not a prescriptivist and ppl using formulae i'm unused to is mostly more interested than annoying -- this thread is mainly bad not good -- but when ppl say "coronated" are they just jokingly avoiding saying "crowned"?
("coronated" is a term in zoology meaning "resembling a crown")
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coronate
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
but fine I'll amend to ""looks like charles is finally getting his coronation after all"
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
i guess the dem primary just unleashed a whole bunch of it into my attention
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Americans could have a slight reluctance to say "crowned" w/r/t politics, while "coronated" sounds more metaphorical, i.e., more distant from genuine monarchical practice? idk
whatever spell check my browser is running does not think "coronated" is a word btw
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
i'm not against it, just unused to it. it seems like needless duplication -- but maybe the avoidance of monarchical implication stops it being a duplication?
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
the more I think about it, the more it seems like a US/UK divide. When I think of "crowning" or "crowned" my first association is childbirth!
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
It make me think of Cornuts. I'm hungry.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
My first association with "crowned" was with boxing champions.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
as in "crowned champion" or as in "punched in the head"
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
the first. the second usage is becoming quite archaic.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
lol my mum used to use the latter, but that largely confirms your judgment
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
This is totally unfair and a prime instance of bad linguistics, but… I can't stand 'preventative'. #preventive4lyfe
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
don’t get me started on “orientate”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
Reading it just now ruined my day tbh.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
any time a song uses the metaphor of a romantic partner as the singer's 'drug', i turn it off
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
What if love is the drug you're thinking of.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
what is drug
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
might as well face it, you’re addicted to drugs
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
lol
― mark s, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
haha
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
'melt' as an insult
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
But what are we going to call the melts then?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
it's the shortest and most euphonious of the available terms imo
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
I googled it when comrade alp or cal called me it once and remain none the wiser
― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
onimo otm
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
Patty Cheesesquish
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
Wait, is a melt the same as a squish?
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
resultant paste, iirc
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
idk if it "annoys the shit out of me" rn but there something about "trying times" (esp. "these trying times") that... idk, distracts me? like it's this weird dusty old phrase that nobody used for years until they realized there was no other phrase that communicates the gravity of the situation without like, being crass i guess?
anyway it doesn't "bug" me but every time i hear it i just fixate on how musty it sounds and EVERYONE is saying it now (p sure i've used it a few times too).
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
I kind of like it tbh.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
i'd probably like it if it didn't keep giving me one of those "don't think about a polar bear" type brain reactions
although it is lyrically a 4/10, it forces you to slow down and really round those vowel sounds, which doesn't fly for a midwestern-ontario-accented closed-mouth talker like me. can't say "thiz trine times" and not sound like you're making fun of it or something
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
I find myself saying "under the circumstances" or "given these unusual conditions." I don't think I've said "trying times" but I'm not sure.
Please provide us an approved list of phrases that we can use to talk about the potentially difficult 24-hour periods that we currently are experiencing, thanks
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
'In this post-Covid-19 world…'
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Seeing how shit is fucked...
― rob, Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
I keep saying “in our new environment” to my students mostly referring to our online classroom but it works elsewhere as well
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
After using "new normal" in a lecture last Monday, I ran to the bathroom and threw up.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
You're not alone, Alfred:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1722270787918
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
Please provide us an approved list of phrases that we can use to talk about the potentially difficult 24-hour periods that we currently are experiencing, thanks― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:23 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:23 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
wish i could think of one that felt like the right balance of respectful, descriptive and casual! but i can't! "while things are tough" is close idk im not a magic wordman
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
"current shitshow"
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
I’m happy to inform you that here in the Netherlands this terminology question has already been settled for us by our prime minister. According to him, we will be living in a anderhalvemetersamenleving, a “1.5-metre/5-feet society”, for the foreseeable future. I fully expect the rest of the world to follow this coinage pronto.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
'Mericans aren't gonna use no namby-pamby panty-waist commie Euro-units.
Gonna go with "gatorlength."
As in, "Cletus, you'd best stay a gatorlength away from me."
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
thing about it is if I use the phrase trying times it sounds mellifluous and wonderful, of a piece with my tone and tongue and not at all jarringly
but if you hear it in your own local accent or with a tin ear or whatever that cannot be helped but should be lamented imo
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link