Ah, that worked, or at least it worked through lemmy.zip but not old.lemmy.zip for some reason. I did need the entire URL as you said-- dropping the https:// turned up results with this thread and another one where the URL is linked, but not the original URL itself.
Also as a side note, is there a way to link specific posts with the ! markdown so they open for everyone in their home instance? I know how to link comms with that formatting, like !theonion@midwest.social, but not how to do it for specific posts.
For example, someone posted this link (https://sh.itjust.works/post/31943808 ), and it was recent enough that I went to the comm homepage and changed it to .zip from there, but when I opened the thread through .zip it had a different post number (https://lemmy.zip/post/31038821 ) (actually I usually use old.lemmy.zip but it’s the same post number either way).
If it’d been an older thread I couldn’t find on the homepage, I’m not sure how to go about accessing it through .zip. Any ideas?
I think FLOTUS gives him too much agency. Kimmel used to call pence the vice poodle, and that’s about right for the orange one as well. Just like a dog he obeys whatever commands get put into his head. Sometimes you have to give him an expensive treat first, but if you can get one of the stuffed suits on fox to say it you get it for free.
President Husk and the first poodle
Algorithm stuff aside, I’m not sure this thread is a good indication of how much can be contributed to linguistics or grammar comms. Plenty of people are in here airing pet peeves, but that’s never a good indication of actual interest in language-- like how r/grammar doesn’t allow pet peeve threads or simple prescriptivism without also providing a discussion of the grammar mechanics. Low effort stuff used to get removed with a recommendation to try subs like r/grammarnazi, but that community (now it’s private so I can’t check details, but I remember it being kind of dead) never had much content specifically because people who just want to make pet peeve threads don’t have any interest in actual discussion.
There already are a couple comms that don’t get much traffic, so maybe if the algo were better we’d see an uptick of the linguistic minded lemmings over there, but it’s a pretty niche interest so I’m not holding out much hope. Looks like the most “active” with a couple posts a month is !linguistics@mander.xyz (anything more grammar focused looks dead).
I subscribe to the view that people mispronouncing things have read more stuff rather than heard things, so of course I’m not looking down on them for that. I didn’t realize until recently that quinoa wasn’t kwin-OH-ah for awhile, or even in my youthful fondness for Greek myths that the goddess wasn’t called ah-fro-DAIT.
The real question is how old were you when you realized there was no N in restaurateur. My decades were at least several.
The quiet (silent) part isn’t normally said. That’s why the meaning is “you’re saying all the parts out loud together, even the parts that are supposed to be silent/quiet”. There was no indication that the “quiet part” was a verbal expression before the “out loud” modifier.
wicked fuckin pissah
\NICH\ is the more common one and the older of the two pronunciations. It is the only pronunciation given for the word in all English dictionaries until the 20th century, when \NEESH\ was first listed as a pronunciation variant in Daniel Jones’s English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917). \NEESH\ wasn’t listed as a pronunciation in our dictionaries until our 1961 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and it wasn’t entered into our smaller Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary until 1993. Even then, it was marked in the Collegiate as a pronunciation that was in educated use but not considered acceptable until 2003.
Quiet can mean either low volume or silent. So it’s saying the silent part out loud-- there’s no contradiction here.
Tuvix did nothing wrong
I really wish there were enough lemmings to maintain ling or grammar communities here. It’s one thing I really miss from reddit
How do you feel about other words or phrases that have different meanings in specific fields vs common use? Like a scientific theory is very different from your buddy’s theory about what the movie you watched meant. Since beg is a stronger word than raise, some statements scream out for questions in response, while others merely give rise to some further need for clarification.
Here’s one mnemonic l: most of the time effect is a noun, which use articles a/the. “The” ends with e and effect starts with e, so “the effect” lines up the e’s.
Or you could try RAVEN: remember affect verb, effect noun
I love when people try to justify all the preposition use in grammar, like we don’t have countless examples of it being completely arbitrary. Like why don’t we “watch at” a movie like we look at a painting, much like listen to vs hear. Or why do verbs with similar meanings take different prepositions, like decide on vs opt for (vs choose without a prep).
Also called tmesis, which includes (as was also mentioned below in this thread), abso-fucking-lutely
The use of anymore (basically meaning nowadays) in positive sentences is a regionalism from several places including the Midwest, but is least common in New England.
much like his continued existence