corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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Here's a dirty secret: your parents are terrible teachers of a language compared to, perhaps, teachers, for the same reason your parents are probably the worst people to teach you how to drive: they don't or can't correct all our mistakes, and in doing so fail to preserve a consistent baseline like a proper curriculum does.

People who speak English having learned from a teacher are likely the best speakers of English that we will ever encounter.

This one's tricky. The comma splice in the first sentence is jarring, but recently people seem to absolutely love them despite being wrong. And let's not linger too long on the 'damn' which should be 'damned'.

I'm not saying it's imperfect: I'm saying if you miss what I find obvious, maybe their miss of what you find obvious could be easier to understand.

For me, aside from 'emails', and the 'nounification' of nouns like 'ask', 'spend', and 'verbification' of 'effort' -- effort the ask to reduce the spend, Dave -- I have a general worry that we're marching towards Idiocracy because LaNgUaGeEvOlVeS and it seems a Parisian-style language police is strongly indicated.

• Wrong: I was lead into the woods by a stranger.

Double-check with proper English. Get ready for learning.

But led/lead isn't the big issue, is it? We have people who learned about words like 'traffic' and 'mail' and still put an s on the end of 'email' like an absolute git.

Let's tackle led/lead after we are done spiritually crushing the 'emails' idiots, and those who confuse that/which/whom/who, and the if/whether idiots. Effect/affect and there/their/they're are excellent early goals to achieve too before we go for the more nuanced stuff.

“There are a lot of people afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”

I don't think Jewish people need reminding of the west's antisemitism

To read the original comment again, you may find it's not about proving or disproving one form of hate but comparing with another level of hate in the country.

And, while there's no Olympic medal for hate victims being more victimized than another, the physical brand of hate muslims can be a little exceptional after the 1900s. Not being a member of either group, my read of the 'taste of' quote would have been more received if the comparison to Germany in the late 1900s was more blatant.

But I'll take this moment to add: the friends I have whom I know follow Judaism do not hate like one state demands they hate. And that needs to change.

You mean instead of tying into a phone, right ?

The only point in time my lack of a phone number becomes an issue is for archaic stuff like this.

post's

Half-assed.

can't afford doctors

That's 99% of America, but many of that group are dissonant about it.

This is a voting issue.

Ha! Took me a moment to remember that Americans can serve a full contract with the military before legally ordering beer. It's so backward that one can have massive life-lone PTSD and no legal alcoholism. Is that a plan?

We're not following the plan because everyone else isn't.

They're not because we aren't. See how that works?

How about we do the right thing because it's the right thing?

You'd think so.

He thought for sure.

His lawyer strongly suggested it.

Nope.

In this region of Canada, at least, the maximum penalty for wrongful dismissal is ... Standard severance.

Source: a dear friend launched a successful human-rights complaint against a very deep-pocketed employer who blatantly violated clear medical orders and then fired him when he objected. Like, 100% dead-to-rights on a claim with no normal upper limit. Except here it maxes out at a pittance.

Maybe there too.

Well it's a year like any other.

It's like how my teachers used to explain it to the slow kids back then. #genX

I also imagine things. Are you supporting your own position through things your brain created while staring out the window?

He'd probably plagiarize his catchphrase too: "Hey Harry; want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?"

Somehow we can get the red panda to replace the raccoon. This is my wish.

Nice to see that the westjet buyout normalized it with the other carrier.

I have consulted chatGPT on code for Ansible, which is garbage anyway. Then I sent it my ideas, which it spotted and suggested fixes for bugs within. Then I ran it and did 5 days of work in one.

For code I do enjoy, I'll want to keep the experience in my brain. For ansible, I'll let chatGPT suffer the PTSD instead. But we're already there.

... who are then taken ... say it with me ... prisoner.

Yeah, to us they're hostages, sure. But if every citizen of the other nation happens to be a reservist after their gap year of service, they're unarmed 'enemy' soldiers on extended leave.

I'm sure the answer is somewhere in the middle and can't be so simply decided on the outside by people who sleep soundly at night.

I feel like I need to see some supporting docs on the other end of the scale to balance out all these breathless accusations. It sounds like it's obvious to you, but i may not be able to discern it from the litany of whackadoo prepper conspiracies we've heard for the last few years.

Setting aside snake oil salesmen and conspiracy wonk sources, do you have some actual math on this one?