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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Well I mean if that's the only gripe then obviously I agree with your comment.

Something I had to learn over the years is that people tend to get butthurt if you don't compliment them before criticizing or correcting them.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Lol I take that as a W. A you're-your correction is just cope. The wrong ur almost never an issue with communication but it you can find the exception it's hilarious

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tazing a sports streaker feels like punching Grandma in the face for taking too much mashed potatoes.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Completely justified in both cases, the old baggage needs to learn to stop hoarding the spuds.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine pissing off Grandma so much that she attacks you randomly. Like a bat. The furry disease creature, not the baseball.... Tool? Are sports gears considered tools? Or toys? Do professional athletes just play with toys all day?? Holy ADHD it's gonna be a day....

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"When grandmas go feral"

I think it's "equipment" when used in sports, though broadly I guess they could be classed as tools.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well if you can't manage to use the correct words, it does bring you're credibility into question.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

What is the context of this image?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First world cup game under the new rules that allow tazers.

Pretty sure this is a baseball game

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like a streaker at a sporting event being tazed by security.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's quite a lot of clothes for a streaker

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This person is obviously not good at streaking as you can see.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 points 19 hours ago
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Indeed, Judge Munster.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

TIL.

Also "yinz", apparently, bc y not?! :-P

[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Peak reditor move for a web service with this amount of non-americans

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ironically it is generally the anglosphere who sucks at their grammar. Since native speakers mostly learn it by speaking and listening they have a harder time with those they're, there, their situations, while everyone else learns it as a second language, primarily through reading and writing. The latter is obviously better suited for good grammar.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago

well grammar.

(j/k, and in that case should I have said grammer mayhaps? :-P)

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have also heard that English is actually a pretty hard language as well, it has so many goofy nuances like your, you're, or there, their, they're. Or words with different meanings like the whole Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Bufalo thing.

[–] Jako302@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago

I have also heard that English is actually a pretty hard language as well, it has so many goofy nuances like your, you're, or there, their, they're.

Your and you're as well as there, their and they're are completely different words that just happen to sound similar. Differentiating them is easy if you take a second to think about their meaning. This isn't something unique to english, false friends exist in every language.

English is a weird case in terms if difficulty. The language itself is fairly easy to learn since it has a relatively small ruleset compared to other european languages. There are no special characters, conjugation is fairly consistent over different tenses and nouns have no gender to memorise.

The biggest problem with english is that it has not enough consistency in regards to spelling and pronunciation. The best analogy I've seen is that the english vocabulary feels kinda vibe-coded. There technically are established rules, but each rule has so many exceptions that you might as well forget about them entirely.