Academic language

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love this sort of thing. Like NASA scientists calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

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  • SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or a data breach an “emergent distributed backup”

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our data is federated

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the first days of planning their Moon landing, NASA came out with lithobraking for the times the capsule wouldn’t slow down enough.

    Then, some 20 and something years lather, when planing their Mars landers, they decided that no, lithobraking is a perfectly fine thing to do and the landers would use it by design.

    So be wary of rocket scientists making jokes.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      for the record… the engineering behind that was quite sound.

      it’s their ability to use consistent units of measurements that’s in question.

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    • Trashcan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For anybody like mine who doesn’t know enough ancient greek… Lithos means rock…

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, if there’s no humans on board and the bots can take the impact, why not?

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you lithobreak into a low gravity object with enough momentum and at an angle you may return into orbit

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• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First time I’ve learnt what the past tense of yeet is.

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  • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Human language truely is a wonder to behold.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And to beyote

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Academic language, bruh

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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if the wording depends on the field.

  As a microbiologist, I would have phrased it like:

  • The sample was destroyed during handling and was not considered for further analysis.
  • The animal was not amenable to handling and was excluded from sample collection.

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• jwelch55@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is ‘yote’ the past tense of ‘yeet’? I assumed it’d be ‘yeeted’

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  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Proper” conjugations are not totally settled, especially given its slang nature. Yeet does feel like it might be strong (stem-changing), though there’s really no authority on it. Interestingly, I found on googling that there is a version of the verb yeet stemming from Middle English verb yeten, which has two variations. The first meant “to address with the pronoun ye” (e.g., as opposed to thou) and had weak conjugations (i.e., yeeted/yeted). The other sense refered to pouring or moving liquids and could be either strong or weak (simple past: yet or yote, or yeted; participle: yote, yoten, yeted). So, looking for historical comparisons is also unhelpful.

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    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a very circumlocutious way of saying IDK, and I thank you for it.

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    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like “yet” as a past tense because it sounds needlessly confusing.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thecontentauthority.com/blog/yeeted-vs-yote

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While “yeeted” may sound like the past tense of “yeet,” it is actually incorrect. The correct past tense of “yeet” is “yote.” Using “yeeted” instead of “yote” can make your writing sound awkward and unprofessional.

      This is the best thing I have read today, thank you!

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    • newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I loved the random seemingly unrelated Huckleberry Finn quote in the middle of their definition of yote

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the way language works, it’s just however people choose to use it. Use the version you think is best.

    personally i go for “yate” beause that sounds funny.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Go for both with yoted

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• Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is like bureauocratic poetry

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like to think about it like a rap battle

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• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know you’ve made it when you can drop the pretense.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To live yote or not to live yote, that is the question

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When did yeeted become yote?

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    • King_Bob_IV@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea but I love it

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• anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeet, yote, yutt.

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