I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a thing in many languages.

Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.

I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.

So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)

You’re gonna love this. We (Australia) give a bunch of gas away (no royalties), barely tax the companies on their profits, and then most of it gets shipped overseas so it’s expensive here.

We’re a third-world country in disguise.

(Gas is dumb and should stay in the ground, but it’s even more stupid for us not to get any revenue from it)

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exports-56-given-to-corporations-royalty-free/

Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩

How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).

Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?

RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).

Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.

Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY in our company for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…

MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks

I wouldn’t call English simple haha

To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying

I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also

This is very upsetting

Thanks for the heads-up. I would have been happier never knowing haha

The implied brackets. THE IMPLIED BRACKETS!! The horror.

Thanks for the response kind soul

100 - 10/100 ≠ 90

I’m not a fan of this at all and wish people would treat percentages as if they were a unit. x% is x of y per 100 total.

x% = x y_i / 100 y_total

Where y_i is the species in question.

My cup is 90% full: My cup contains 90 units_water / per 100 units_cup

This is why I don’t like Baker’s percentages. I guess it makes sense, because it’s still per cent, but they’re mixing the meaning used practically everywhere else these days.

50% water for baking isn’t 50 units_water / per 100 units_dough, it’s 50 units_water / per 100 units_**flour**. In my mind that means you have 33.33% hydration, not 50%…

Just feels weird to not express that as a ratio. But I guess it’s a shorthand that works for them :/

Percentages for show, decimals for a pro

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Just my two cents, not having a go at you:

This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.

Stupid english with its stupid verbs.

We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.

Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?

I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!

I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha

I think it’s nuts people don’t think of it like a resume.

Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, its usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.

If it’s funny, it’s funny

You’ve discovered the problem with organising an economic system around profit

Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.

Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?

Being an outsider I thought non credible defence was just memes about military things, are they specifically pro US imperialism?