Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world PyroNeurosis @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2d ago

Petty pedantry

It's common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.

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While we're on the topic, that's not how colons work.
- When you can smell his colon on your pillow 🥰
  
  You want pink eye? Cause that's how you get pink eye
  
  Sounds like true love to me
- How would you write that, then?
  
  Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
  
  but,
- Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.
  
  For a person complaining about pedantic language stuff you’re really falling apart 😂
  
  It's ok, my colon doesn't work very well either.
My rule with langauge:

If you understand what they’re trying to say, then they did a good enough job expressing themselves.

(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernie’s message and liking it lol).
- I think its knot just you understand but how quicker it is to get demeaning it is also important. The more pour spells and grammer makes you to backup and red again, even if you can finally deciver it, the wurst it is.
  
  At some point you give up, but well before that you have every right to be annoyed.
  
  You have no idea, how much I hate you right now!
- I get the message and generally don't care for prescriptive grammar, but for some reason this particular rule haunts me.
  
  Let those votes be a lesson: camouflage your actual point behind a picture everyone loves and you will .... win fake internet points?
  
  win fake internet points?
  
  Don't even get those here
  
  I think you deserve credit for finding a humorous, joyful way to make your point, instead of being obnoxious about it. I don’t even want to imagine what this post (and the accompanying comments) would be like on The Site That Shall Not Be Named.
- Ok but what type of LAN gauge? Are you talking like an ethernet cable tester, a protocol analyzer, what? Are we dealing with fiber, ethernet, or even shudder token ring?
For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
- Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he's in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he's flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can't be "on earth" is if you're in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.
  
  Also, he's definitely on something. Might be earth
  
  I suppose the ocean is also over earth?
  
  you could be “on grass” instead
Sorry Bernie forgot to capitalize EARTH TO MAKE IT A PROPER NOUN
Who names a planet after dirt?
- Most of it isn't even covered in dirt. Should have named it Water, or at least Rock.
My dictionary says it's lowercase. I've only ever seen it in lowercase, unless you're taking about it in the astronomical sense (e.g. "the planet Earth").

See the first entry here. "On earth" is an idiom, and "earth" starts with a lowercase E.
make Felon Musk bankrupt.
Um ackshully, can you name a person wealthier than Elon Musk that’s ever stood on dirt, loam, soil, silt, or clay?

Checkmate atheists
- Mansa Musa of Mali. His wealth was in the trillions. He basically showed up in Cairo with a bunch of his buddies in tow and spent so much and so lavishly, including just handing out gold to everyone, that he wrecked Egypt's economy for a decade. He owned something like half the world gold reserves at the time.
  
  That's kind of a myth. Musa and the Mali empire were certainly wealthy for the time but you can't really compare an emperor in the 14th century with a modern oligarch.
  
  Musa liked to boast about his wealth at every opportunity. Like, he would tell people that gold grows like a plant in Mali while he threw gold bars at them. And all the reports of his immense wealth come from the people he encountered on his pilgrimage.
  
  The amount of gold he brought (18 tons!) would be worth about $1.5B today. That was likely all of the gold the empire had collected during his reign. And it wasn't technically his, it belonged to the empire.
  
  The price of gold in Egypt dropped by about 15%, which was a lot but well within normal fluctuations. He also ran out of gold on the return trip and had to beg for loans which he never repaid.
i am glad a more liberal judge was elected to the supreme court, but she was backed by the democratic party. this is not a grassroots movement, its backed by an extremely rich party committee. this wasnt a david v goliath.
The Principle of Least Effort always wins in the end.
i feel like this YT short might help explain it.

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