Wait there’s no salad dressing in Europe?

I wonder how many competent career government workers he has to fire before this kind of thing can go through. Maybe in another year an offer from the “Lord of Denmark” has a reasonable chance of getting some cash transferred.

Right at the end of that gif it looked like after he dropped the ball Michael was searching for some other balls to juggle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moschen

I hear the algo’s a big problem with loops and mastodon (?) also, but I don’t really do the tiktok or twitter style SMS so I’m not very familiar. With all the shit going on with the oligarchs and right wing world governments these days, it’ll be interesting to see if the fediverse can sustain itself.

Algorithm stuff aside, I’m not sure this thread is a good indication of how much can be contributed to linguistics or grammar comms. Plenty of people are in here airing pet peeves, but that’s never a good indication of actual interest in language-- like how r/grammar doesn’t allow pet peeve threads or simple prescriptivism without also providing a discussion of the grammar mechanics. Low effort stuff used to get removed with a recommendation to try subs like r/grammarnazi, but that community (now it’s private so I can’t check details, but I remember it being kind of dead) never had much content specifically because people who just want to make pet peeve threads don’t have any interest in actual discussion.

There already are a couple comms that don’t get much traffic, so maybe if the algo were better we’d see an uptick of the linguistic minded lemmings over there, but it’s a pretty niche interest so I’m not holding out much hope. Looks like the most “active” with a couple posts a month is !linguistics@mander.xyz (anything more grammar focused looks dead).

I subscribe to the view that people mispronouncing things have read more stuff rather than heard things, so of course I’m not looking down on them for that. I didn’t realize until recently that quinoa wasn’t kwin-OH-ah for awhile, or even in my youthful fondness for Greek myths that the goddess wasn’t called ah-fro-DAIT.

The quiet (silent) part isn’t normally said. That’s why the meaning is “you’re saying all the parts out loud together, even the parts that are supposed to be silent/quiet”. There was no indication that the “quiet part” was a verbal expression before the “out loud” modifier.

You definitely can

https://web.archive.org/web/20090416054321/https://www.chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm

\NICH\ is the more common one and the older of the two pronunciations. It is the only pronunciation given for the word in all English dictionaries until the 20th century, when \NEESH\ was first listed as a pronunciation variant in Daniel Jones’s English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917). \NEESH\ wasn’t listed as a pronunciation in our dictionaries until our 1961 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and it wasn’t entered into our smaller Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary until 1993. Even then, it was marked in the Collegiate as a pronunciation that was in educated use but not considered acceptable until 2003.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche

Quiet can mean either low volume or silent. So it’s saying the silent part out loud-- there’s no contradiction here.

Tuvix did nothing wrong

I really wish there were enough lemmings to maintain ling or grammar communities here. It’s one thing I really miss from reddit

How do you feel about other words or phrases that have different meanings in specific fields vs common use? Like a scientific theory is very different from your buddy’s theory about what the movie you watched meant. Since beg is a stronger word than raise, some statements scream out for questions in response, while others merely give rise to some further need for clarification.

Here’s one mnemonic l: most of the time effect is a noun, which use articles a/the. “The” ends with e and effect starts with e, so “the effect” lines up the e’s.

Or you could try RAVEN: remember affect verb, effect noun

I love when people try to justify all the preposition use in grammar, like we don’t have countless examples of it being completely arbitrary. Like why don’t we “watch at” a movie like we look at a painting, much like listen to vs hear. Or why do verbs with similar meanings take different prepositions, like decide on vs opt for (vs choose without a prep).

Also called tmesis, which includes (as was also mentioned below in this thread), abso-fucking-lutely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmesis

The use of anymore (basically meaning nowadays) in positive sentences is a regionalism from several places including the Midwest, but is least common in New England.

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/positive-anymore

I always heard people use it as a synonym for pushing the envelope (like you’re walking right up to the line and prodding it with your toe), and only found out the “falling in line” meaning later. I still see tons of that usage today, and I wonder where it came from.

At least in this story Aristippus is gaining something tangible, and presumably he was eating bread and lentils before he sucked up to the king. In Zuck’s story, before licking the orange butthole he already had everything. He had to taste spray tan and dingleberries to make his imaginary numbers say something slightly different on paper without changing anything about their impact on his life.

I’m gonna nitpick your blasters point-- has a phaser ever run out of juice on screen? I just assumed the power sources they found for both blasters and phasers was so advanced it just seems like they always have all the power they need.