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has he tried negotiating?
has he tried negotiating?
DOS -> win95 -> win98 -> debian (and i’m still here 24 years later…)
it’s gonna keep looping through the foodchain until some microbe finally figures out an easy way to break them down… fun stuff.
it’s been slowly getting worse since the 2010s. i remember talking about it back then.
the EU leadership doesnt seem to be looking for that kind of solution either, they’re just doubling down on what doesnt seem to be working
not being hostile to them first would’ve helped…
yes, i know that’s the accepted wisdom but i’m not seeing it. and if that were a real fear, then europe has just played itself, because russia is only going to be more likely to attack now that europe has shown itself to be a paper tiger… maybe it would’ve been better to say an absolute no to the idea of ukraine joining nato in 2008 or so. maybe there would still be a ukraine.
europe should have absolutely zero self interest in sabotaging its own economy but it’s doing it anyway… the current batch of ghouls leading european countries should have no self interest in boosting the popularity of nazis at their own expense, but they’re doing it anyway…
ages ago, i spent something like half a year thinking there was a word “appericate”. it was an odd one, since i only ever saw it in print, and from context it was clear that it meant the same thing as “appreciate”, which, oddly enough, i only ever heard in speech.
and then one day i stopped at an “appericate” in a book and re-read it 9 times, very slowly.
i went to the movie theater and watched it all the way through. it was harrowing. i havent forgiven the hobbit movie, PJ and the movie industry in general for that one.
if chickens can have fingers and buffalo can have wings…
zero is even, so i dont see how that one’s wrong
stuffed nose leads to sore throat though, inevitably. cos you breathe through your mouth and your throat dries out
why do you think that matters? what actually matters is how people use language. admittedly, this also involves studying people like you who have weird ideas about language.
if you just listen to people, you’ll find that they use this phrase to talk about atm machines. that’s all that is required. it doesnt matter if you think the name for a thing was derived through a process you personally dont like. it’s still a name for a thing that is in common use and understood by people.
oh, also, do you think the “river avon” is also wrong? why or why not?
that’s a spelling mistake, which is an entirely different kettle of fish
lol no. why would it be an error? if that’s how people say it, that’s what it’s called.
native speakers cannot by definition make systematic errors. they cannot make “common mistakes”. if a thing is common, that’s the correct way to say it. so what do you mean? spelling mistakes? (spelling is a separate thing from language)
win98 was really really awful.
we’re doing the IE6 thing again…
the legislation has actually been a great success though. it was enacted to punish women in general and poor people in general, and poor women in particular.
the cruelty is the point.