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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that "grammar nazis" instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that's correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument "the dictionary says..." is voided.

Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it's not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.

Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. "extream" is incorrect, but "stream" isn't, and that "eam/eme" is pronounced the same way. So "extream" is at least understandable. It's similar to "ect" instead of "etc", which is commonly mispronounced as "ek-setera" so you can see why people think the C is after the E.

I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can't grok what they're trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can't understand it I just assume they won't be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

A turd world cuntry.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

He was, twice, wore it like a badge of honour, and all the MAGAts voted for him again.

There was a time when presidents had decency and would quit rather than be impeached. Normal rules don't apply to the orange twat.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in my Arse

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

It's a trap!

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don't bother.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

They can redeem themselves by writing Trump 2 The Art of the Moron.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Don't you mean Eramicans?

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Moist Ron in the dry US sounds terse

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Limited joint range. I just thought that's as far as they went. It still freaks me out slightly when I see people using a normal range, as if they'd just turned their heads through 360° or bent their knees the wrong way.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Plot twist: NHTSA are the only people that approve new designs, so Tesla can't sell any more cars.

Well we can dream.

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