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by archduck 5y ago
They're still pulling this kind of stuff? Back in 2014 a journalist recorded an agonizing conversation with a Comcast agent who refused, over and over again, to disconnect his service without arguing. One of the most infuriating things
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by archduck 5y ago
One can surely make the case for certain morphemes being unutterable, but phonemes ? Perhaps I'm just whooshing on some hyperbole here, but it's hard to imagine something like /g/ being frowned upon.
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by archduck 5y ago
Do you feel like saying "ein Ex-Freund von mir" still carries this boyfriend connotation as opposed to "mein Ex-Freund"? The latter is clear to me, but I could see myself saying the former and thereby mistakenly suggesti
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by archduck 5y ago
lol
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by archduck 5y ago
In 1) and 2), it's clear the speaker is making some kind of conjecture. In 3), I think there's some bleed-over interfering from the idiomatic "I guess" which indicates that you're reporting hearsay or hedging your c
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by archduck 5y ago
In addition, in printed news at least, the article writer rarely gets to write the headline.
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by archduck 6y ago
Hell, some people even manage to make gobs of money publicly documenting their irregular intercourse on video.
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by archduck 6y ago
ASAP, to my ears, always connotes urgency, and I'd even go so far as to say that its usage without this sense is universally dispreferred, if not outright misusage. Or at least I used to think so ... until a misunderstanding arose
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by archduck 6y ago
Some of those which carry boats / Are the same which carry ships
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by archduck 6y ago
There are U-Schiffe too, which are larger than U-Boote, but the claustrophobia element wouldn't have been as intense in the film. On the other hand, an U-Schiff would have never become unstuck from the bottom of the Mediterranean. Anot
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by archduck 6y ago
I sure as hell won't install a browser extension if its source code isn't publicly available; I don't see how the government should or even could protect us from every update made to all of the software packages I import (eve
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by archduck 6y ago
The original source is over a hundred pages of polling data, so I won’t link to that. https://m.slashdot.org/story/381628
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by archduck 6y ago
> More intelligent people can play host to far more sophisticated parasitic memes. Educated adults are less likely to believe that lizard people rule the world There's evidence that highly educated people are _more_ likely to belie
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by archduck 6y ago
Tell that to all the descendants of Genghis Khan....
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by archduck 6y ago
Ha! In your dreams.