I can never not read POS as Piece of Shit
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I think it is often used as a card handler and less as a way that people pay (as we used to, by connecting it to a bank account or having a balance)
I have an old kindle and I love it. Does everything I need it to. Read books with a backlight, that's it.
PayPal lost a long time ago. It is barely used in the UK now.
Yeah OP's words are definitely not accepted but British English still has lots, another I just thought of is Dreamt
Susie Dent mentioned on a radio 4 show that words that maintained the archaic -t ending are usually more commonly used words. Words that are used less lost their -t ending and gained a more generic -ed ending as people were not taught it and used the rule they knew. So words we have like slept, dreamt, smelt are regularly used words day to day.
But that doesn't mean anything if you can't measure it. It may as well not exist. How can you tell something is having a subjective experience? How can you tell if something is experiencing "qualia"? You can't.
When we had our broadband installed the guy doing it took way too long and got very frustrated and made a mess of it, but it worked. Two days later it stopped working.
When the fault engineer came and fixed it, turned out the original engineer had connected us to the wrong cable, so when another engineer came to set up our neighbour's Internet, they disconnected ours.
Conversations about consciousness always wind me up because as soon as you ask them to define consciousness, nobody can come up with a measurable definition
Didn't look after my posture, now my neck is fucked and it causes pain all down my arm and my finger is numb...