MaybeNaught

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[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

"How long are your guts?" is pretty raunchy if you're using the back door. Doubting your physical compatibility is a level of brag that inspires fantasy smut.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

OOPs initial instinct was correct. You're supposed to answer truthfully based on your actual observed experiences, not answer questions about others' assessments your behavior with your own internal assessment of that behavior. Overthinking surveys can skew answers inappropriately.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

League of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I would still qualify "space" as a noun here, but that's if you accept these kinds of constructions as sequences of nouns rather than the zero-conversion of nouns into and adjectives.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I guess fashions come and go, but I never understood the appeal of that bright/flat, chalk/paper white color on nails.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's the localized update of a localized update of a localized update of a localized update to a social construct.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Aboitions are what prohibition-era goilfriends got for unwanted pregnancies.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Afaik, English grammar requires utterances with predicates to have a stressed element in those predicates. Contractions of only a subject and an auxiliary verb - ex: I am > I'm, he has > he's, they will > they'll - eliminate that independent auxiliary as a prosodic segment and violate that grammar.

A - "Who's going to the store?"

B - "I am." [ok] or "I'm going." [ok] (or "I am going."), but not "I'm." [bad, obvs].

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That makes sense. I should have been more emphatic that if/when the subjunctive shows up in speech, it should exist for largely the same purposes it serves in other languages... granted, even in that case, it's less complex than in other languages.

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

There's at least the wiki article on the English subjunctive.

Personal disclaimer: To me (though I'm not a perfect reporter), (American) English feels like it barely has a subjunctive mood in practice anymore. If you're familiar with the pragmatic application of the subjunctive in your own language or others, that may help, but YMMV for how often and how consistently you'll hear it used in everyday English speech (at least in the US).

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I wonder how random chance works on that snap though: Is it 50% of every sentient population or just 50% of sentient life? What if humanity were wholly spared by the snap just based on statistical chance?

[–] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well, the problem is saying that almost all the elements end with -ium, which makes this a non-issue from the jump. Also, according to the wiki article on aluminum, the US and UK basically swapped their preferred spellings - the -ium form was first preferred in the US, while the UK preferred the -um form, then they each adopted the other instead.

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