Breighden.
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Yes, this. Nobody came along and decreed the dictionary was descriptive - which would itself be a prescriptivist view of the world - it just is.
Linguistics rejected prescriptivism because it is a failed model of reality. I think the reason so many people cling to a prescriptive model is because in school we were taught obedience above all else, which is a terrible way of educating people, but maybe it helps to maintain a subservient class of workers.
Okay, thanks, makes sense.
Fascinating, but it doesn't really explain why mandarins come pre-sliced, since they're at the top of that chart.
Although being easy to eat seems like an evolutionary advantage for fruit even if humans aren't doing it.
Yeah, "you get to keep the car, I get unlimited travel pass, deal?" People often seem to think policies are iron clad, but they're just decisions.
Might be hard because the car is a significant upfront investment. The sunk cost is another big reason people defend their cars.
Hypocrisy means a lack of self-reflection, and I am perfectly able to reflect on the fact that I was deliberately disrespecting you, and I think it was a fine thing to do actually.
You took a meaningful, thoughtful reply and dismissed it with a nitpick that, by the way, completely missed the point.
Your response to my critique was pure toxicity, just laden with contempt for me and the other commenter. The fact you started with a grammatical complaint shows how utterly shallow and vapid your replies are.
You're an asshole, and I have no trouble talking to you like an asshole. However, I won't let you waste any more of my time, so this is the last thing I'll say to you. Feel free to shock me by not being an asshole in your final reply.
It wasn't hypocrisy, I was demonstrating a lack of respect for anything you had to say, just like you did. Doesn't feel good, does it?
All three of the "sentences" in your reply don't fucking parse if you want to be goddamn garmmar nazi about it.
You got a well-written, thoughtful and meaningful comment, and you mined it for one nitpick to sarcastically attack as if it was the whole point.
Pearls before swine.
This version has left handed as well:
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Description: A very overexposed image of a girl staring open-mouthed into a bright, cloudy, night sky, mid-flash as it is lit up by a meteor.
Still image taken from this IG video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7JcDGXtORH/
Longer, unedited version with original audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7LrNlCNOmR/
She just happened to catch this meteor and her own reaction to it, entirely by accident. Absolutely watch the video, the shadows playing through the clouds as the meteor passes through the frame are stunning, but the most remarkable thing to me is this moment where laughing with her friends is interrupted and she doesn't yet know where to look. It's such a universal reaction and really special to see. This image is taken as one of the very bright flashes is blowing out the camera. Some frames are almost entirely white, others look much clearer. I chose a frame to make the subject legible but also give a sense of how overwhelmingly bright the flashes really were.
Description: An iconified image of a space helmet, with text underneath reading:
MURDERING ALL CITIZENS IS NOT REQUIRED.
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It's just an eggcorn.
They make the point in that video that it can't be considered a real mistake since it makes its own kind of sense.