4517 pts · May 11, 2013
#20 None of those are pronouns, though. Cannon fodder is a noun and expendable and dead are adjectives. We use these grammar rules instinctively every day but so few people have the curiosity to learn jack shit about parts of speech. Humans are rubbish at language and intelligence.
What the fuck is happening in Arizona?
Great band name
Bunch of great memes... whole series of black text bullsshit on purple by someone who's read too much pop psychology and has never had a boss... more great memes...
#25 This one confused me for a minute until I stopped assuming people know how to pronounce Bach.
#29 In the UK "Daddy Long Legs" is a cranefly, a disturbing insect whose legs, which are long, routinely fall off. From what I've gathered the US uses the name for harvestmen, specialised spider-eating spiders, which we also have in the UK. Not only is this a weird name, it also makes me wonder if the name is borrowed and who thought of it first or if it somehow emerged independently in both places.
Unconvinced. Tabs in explorer are useless and badly implemented. Searching task manager is pointless, I can scroll, and I don't get why they moved away from control panel in the first place; replace applets with identically laid-out up-to-date versions. As far as security, I daresay they have improved it, but why do they not make the ability to run anything remotely impossible by default? Why do MS default apps have very sketchy ads in them? User experience is as important as security IMO.
Your point is generally completely right, but I still regret upgrading from 10. I decided to do it after 11 had been out about a year to avoid the worst bugs, and it runs stably, but I was shocked by how piecemeal it still is. The whole 11 experience feels like someone's freeware hobby project they work on when they have free time. Nothing appreciable is improved over 10, it looks much worse and many options and features are missing for no clear reason.
#43 Polish worm riders?
What is the point of an extra monitor you can't see? You can get a basic monitor off ebay for £20 and it's lifechanging.
If you're British. It pains me to admit it, but American is just as valid. The trick is to remember it's a different language that just seems similar. It's like dog breeds. They are all dogs, but alsatians are undeniably different from labradors.
So you just switch back and forth between British and American for fun? Spellcheck must love you.
Tired is physical energy low, mental energy high, like when you want to watch two more movies, fix your bike and write a novel but it's 2AM and focusing your eyes is hard. Sleepy is mental energy low, physical energy high, like when you wake up and get out of bed entirely before realising your alarm isn't going to go off for two more hours. Weary is all energy low, like 2PM on Friday at work doing busywork during a heatwave.
#22 I don't think the maker of this knows what a fan or a wedge are shaped like
Environmental issues aside, why does this matter for memes? It's not like the AI made the actual meme, and it took the maker exactly as much effort to make this as it would have to put the caption on a cosplay photo they saved or watermarked stock image or whatever.
#19 I can't tell whether this is pro-gun or anti-gun. I feel like anti-gun people would nod and smile sadly and pro-gun people would go "hell yeah brother!" when they saw this.
#29 I mean Afrikaaners (not Afrikaans, that's the language) are almost all white, that's historically kind of the point.
Ah well, thank you for your service.
So, Images Of Note is just over?
hands are way too big
Every German-speaking country drives on the right, thus has an LHD car.
That is the definition of good language use: mutually understood communication. Young people's slang exists to be exclusive of older generations, but once they generally understand it, it is abandoned. "convincing others to support them" requires that it already be commonly understood. Everyone already knows the words poisonous and venomous but not as many understood the technicalities of their use, it's a minor adjustment to fit with extant definitions, no willing into existence needed
NPC
No, true, you can't control how people use language, but you can control how you use language. You can use language in a way that people will understand, or you can use it in a way that will confuse them and derail the conversation. Words that had other meanings in the past are not relevant, the point is you can't personally will a new commonly understood definition of something into existence, you have to use commonly understood words if you care to be understood.
The only way usage is correct is if the person you're talking to understands it. That means it's on your judgement to pick the word that works in the situation, and on me to interpret whatever you choose. I don't know how things are with you but I'm not in the habit of discussing vaginas that much, medically or colloquially, but I'd rather use the wording that suggests I know what I'm talking about than not.
Mandalorian was a decent action series for SW fans. Andor is a phenomenal political espionage drama that anyone who has never seen SW can enjoy. It's unlike anything that's ever been in SW before, it has good acting and a script that sounds like real intelligent people, and its climaxes are not the action scenes so much as the monologues. And it's exactly the right drama for the world right now. Check the IMDB page of Tony Gilroy, the writer - if anything there appeals, you'll probably like it.
Not seeing the difference there. The police are just the biggest gang; true at city scale, true at global scale.
I'd guess you're one of those people who uses 'literally' to mean 'figuratively' too. And yes, sure, you can use words to mean something other than what they mean in common understanding, or just spontaneously invent words, if you really want your conversations to be three times as long as necessary while you explain yourself, and annoying as hell to whoever you're talking to. Or you could just use the right word in the first place and accept that you've been making communication harder.
"You may be a qualified expert who's made a profession out of teaching people this stuff, but I know better, because I don't want to deal with the the implied judgement that comes with the fact I've been using the wrong words all my life."
#15 Anger doesn't inevitably lead to hate, though. It's a pretty good line, but a much better one, unexpectedly from Ep. 1, is "Always remember, your focus determines your reality".
#20 None of those are pronouns, though. Cannon fodder is a noun and expendable and dead are adjectives. We use these grammar rules instinctively every day but so few people have the curiosity to learn jack shit about parts of speech. Humans are rubbish at language and intelligence.
What the fuck is happening in Arizona?
Great band name
Bunch of great memes... whole series of black text bullsshit on purple by someone who's read too much pop psychology and has never had a boss... more great memes...
#25 This one confused me for a minute until I stopped assuming people know how to pronounce Bach.
#29 In the UK "Daddy Long Legs" is a cranefly, a disturbing insect whose legs, which are long, routinely fall off. From what I've gathered the US uses the name for harvestmen, specialised spider-eating spiders, which we also have in the UK. Not only is this a weird name, it also makes me wonder if the name is borrowed and who thought of it first or if it somehow emerged independently in both places.
Unconvinced. Tabs in explorer are useless and badly implemented. Searching task manager is pointless, I can scroll, and I don't get why they moved away from control panel in the first place; replace applets with identically laid-out up-to-date versions. As far as security, I daresay they have improved it, but why do they not make the ability to run anything remotely impossible by default? Why do MS default apps have very sketchy ads in them? User experience is as important as security IMO.
Your point is generally completely right, but I still regret upgrading from 10. I decided to do it after 11 had been out about a year to avoid the worst bugs, and it runs stably, but I was shocked by how piecemeal it still is. The whole 11 experience feels like someone's freeware hobby project they work on when they have free time. Nothing appreciable is improved over 10, it looks much worse and many options and features are missing for no clear reason.
#43 Polish worm riders?
What is the point of an extra monitor you can't see? You can get a basic monitor off ebay for £20 and it's lifechanging.
If you're British. It pains me to admit it, but American is just as valid. The trick is to remember it's a different language that just seems similar. It's like dog breeds. They are all dogs, but alsatians are undeniably different from labradors.
So you just switch back and forth between British and American for fun? Spellcheck must love you.
Tired is physical energy low, mental energy high, like when you want to watch two more movies, fix your bike and write a novel but it's 2AM and focusing your eyes is hard. Sleepy is mental energy low, physical energy high, like when you wake up and get out of bed entirely before realising your alarm isn't going to go off for two more hours. Weary is all energy low, like 2PM on Friday at work doing busywork during a heatwave.
#22 I don't think the maker of this knows what a fan or a wedge are shaped like
Environmental issues aside, why does this matter for memes? It's not like the AI made the actual meme, and it took the maker exactly as much effort to make this as it would have to put the caption on a cosplay photo they saved or watermarked stock image or whatever.
#19 I can't tell whether this is pro-gun or anti-gun. I feel like anti-gun people would nod and smile sadly and pro-gun people would go "hell yeah brother!" when they saw this.
#29 I mean Afrikaaners (not Afrikaans, that's the language) are almost all white, that's historically kind of the point.
Ah well, thank you for your service.
So, Images Of Note is just over?
hands are way too big
Every German-speaking country drives on the right, thus has an LHD car.
That is the definition of good language use: mutually understood communication. Young people's slang exists to be exclusive of older generations, but once they generally understand it, it is abandoned. "convincing others to support them" requires that it already be commonly understood. Everyone already knows the words poisonous and venomous but not as many understood the technicalities of their use, it's a minor adjustment to fit with extant definitions, no willing into existence needed
NPC
No, true, you can't control how people use language, but you can control how you use language. You can use language in a way that people will understand, or you can use it in a way that will confuse them and derail the conversation. Words that had other meanings in the past are not relevant, the point is you can't personally will a new commonly understood definition of something into existence, you have to use commonly understood words if you care to be understood.
The only way usage is correct is if the person you're talking to understands it. That means it's on your judgement to pick the word that works in the situation, and on me to interpret whatever you choose. I don't know how things are with you but I'm not in the habit of discussing vaginas that much, medically or colloquially, but I'd rather use the wording that suggests I know what I'm talking about than not.
Mandalorian was a decent action series for SW fans. Andor is a phenomenal political espionage drama that anyone who has never seen SW can enjoy. It's unlike anything that's ever been in SW before, it has good acting and a script that sounds like real intelligent people, and its climaxes are not the action scenes so much as the monologues. And it's exactly the right drama for the world right now. Check the IMDB page of Tony Gilroy, the writer - if anything there appeals, you'll probably like it.
Not seeing the difference there. The police are just the biggest gang; true at city scale, true at global scale.
I'd guess you're one of those people who uses 'literally' to mean 'figuratively' too. And yes, sure, you can use words to mean something other than what they mean in common understanding, or just spontaneously invent words, if you really want your conversations to be three times as long as necessary while you explain yourself, and annoying as hell to whoever you're talking to. Or you could just use the right word in the first place and accept that you've been making communication harder.
"You may be a qualified expert who's made a profession out of teaching people this stuff, but I know better, because I don't want to deal with the the implied judgement that comes with the fact I've been using the wrong words all my life."
#15 Anger doesn't inevitably lead to hate, though. It's a pretty good line, but a much better one, unexpectedly from Ep. 1, is "Always remember, your focus determines your reality".