I can’t believe we’re still talking about that shitty propaganda! I remember anticipating an interesting documentary about quantum implications, then went to see it with some other physics nerds and being disgusted by the hamfisted mix of fundamentalist religion framed as “science”. What have they done to us? WHAT DID THEY DO TO US
instantiate
materialise?
Right. Carrots and potatoes are legumes now are they? The commenter replied to you summarised it for you, and you don’t know as much as you think you do.
Trait is/can be pronounced as ‘tray’.
Counterpoint: telling people how they are supposed to prepare their food, which they consume and becomes a part of them and as such is intensely personal, is a dick move.
You’re getting downvoted but I’m with ya man.
.hummus would be cool
Not true, .org was supposed to be for non-profit organisations, with .gov and .com for other government and commercial entities.
Seconded
I’d understand it as two mismatched socks.
True. Otherwise we’d have no use for that stupid word ‘throuple’. We should call them fews.
Oh, this sparked my hill to die on - two (2). Why the fuck do you need to put it into Hindu-Arabic numeral form (parenthetically, and condescendingly) when you’ve already given the word in text, which is otherwise in English and it can be assumed that most English-speakers know the word two?!
Funny that knikkers are marbles! Probably used to be the same in English with een paar, but with language change moving English away from its West Germanic roots we tend not to use ‘pair’ so often any more except when referring to specific things where it’s important that there’s two of them, like aces or… knickers.
Here’s one I can weigh in on. I realise they have different meanings now, but they didn’t always. As language evolves, often words that used to be synonyms are differentiated so that their meanings, while still similar, have a different nuance. An example off the top of my head: sin and crime. Sin was the Old English word for crime, before the Romance word ‘crime’ entered English, presumably after William the Conqueror invaded and French became the language of court. ‘Sin’ didn’t disappear, it just became a more specialised form of the now general word ‘crime’ - meaning a crime against God, used to describe moral failings rather than acts hurting others like theft or murder. We still have both words today, and both are useful, even though they originally meant the same. Since the distinction between ‘envy’ and ‘jealousy’ is arguably pretty nuanced, I suspect the same thing happened here - both were comparative and related to the difference between what you have and what your neighbour has, I think the differentiation is relatively recent. I’m not sure if this explanation helps you resolve this hill to die on, please let me know if I can elaborate further.
Please remove “that’s”
Movie was more accessible, Thick of It series was blacker, crueller humour
That’s the… first… thing… that’s… ever gone wrong.
Obviously there’s technique to it, it wouldn’t have survived as a competitive martial art otherwise. But the Japanese watch sumo for cultural reasons rather than because of their passion for the technique. It has a place in modern culture that links Japanese people to their deep-seated traditions. It’s like someone uninterested in sport knowing who’s playing on a given weekend, so they can comment on it as a neutral topic of discussion while getting their hair cut.
Doesn’t mean that it’s not a crock of shit. And I’m not saying boxing isn’t exactly the same either. Sumo is just more of a traditional practice akin to ritual than it is to actual sport or martial art. But I don’t know why I’m bothering to reply, since apparently none of this matters to you because your opening sentence demonstrates you don’t know how to structure an argument without alienating your interlocutor.
Sorry dude, I found being unnecessarily rude to a total stranger amusing, but I agree with your point.
lol dunno why the downvotes but that’s hilarious if you don’t use the word ‘sack’ someone as a synonym for ‘fire’ someone where you come from!