Comment on Physicists vs Normal People

• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Rich, from the kind of person who thinks there’s an F in “lieutenant.”

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m guessing you pronounce Colonel as Kernel.

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As if cutting letters and syllables from words to make then more efficient isn’t a tradition as old as words, innit?

      But adding an invisible consonant? That’s insane.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s not because of efficiency or whatever you’re trying to say, military ranks especially have a long history of weirdness and changes in languages, pronunciation, and spelling. All not all 3 being in line.

        Like wow it’s ok to not know these things, but you shouldn’t act all holier than thou. Ciao.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not British - but I am a Physicist.

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then you should know the difference between petroleum and gasoline.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  *Gasoline or diesel. Petroleum has to be refined first before use in a car.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Gasoline not petroleum.

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  • crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gasoline is called petrol outside of the US. It is a distinct word from petroleum.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m aware that British people think it’s called petrol, but you’re mistaken if you think that it’s only the US that calls it Gasoline. That’s the term used for most of the English-speaking Americas, including Canada and many former British colonies like Bermuda and the Bahamas. In fact, if you include Latin America’s “gasolina” it’s almost the entire Americas. And if you include variants on that name you’ll also have to include Japan and Korea. In fact, “gasoline” has even invaded the British isles. Variations of “gasoline” are sometimes used in Welsh, Scots Gaelic and Irish.

      But, anyhow, my point was more that “gas isn’t even a gas” is as dumb as “petrol isn’t even petroleum”. “Gas” is just a short form for “gasoline”, nobody’s suggesting it’s in a gaseous state, just like nobody is suggesting that petrol is literally just a short form of petroleum, despite the obvious similarity of the words. This is English, the language where “read” and “read” are two different words pronounced differently. It’s no major issue to have “gas” be a short form of gasoline as well as being a state of matter, though it does sound funny if you say something like “gas is a liquid”.

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      • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This is English, the language where “read” and “read” are two different words pronounced differently.

        rofl

        I’ll be saving that one

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      gasoline, not gas.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “Gas” doesnt refer to its state of matter, it’s short for gasoline.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wow, I did not know that! I literally have never heard the word “gasoline” before!

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ok, then how about the directional circle, solid pedal, and liquid pedal?

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They’re all just vector appliers.

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• Eagle0110@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But it was originally derived from coal gas back in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, when the first internal combustion engine for transportation application was being developed.

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