It’s common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.
My rule with langauge:
If you understand what they’re trying to say, then they did a good enough job describing themselves.
(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernie’s message and liking it lol).
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
While we’re on the topic, that’s not how colons work.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
When you can smell his colon on your pillow 🥰
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You want pink eye? Cause that’s how you get pink eye
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like true love to me
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 1 day ago
Hot take I know, but I don’t think he should be shitting on your pillows.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a
:
pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times messagefor a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.
This is why quoting exists.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did you finally find the culprit?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sure, but: it was right there all along.
Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he’s also someimes on earth. Although he’s more of an indoors boy.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.
vladmech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For a person complaining about pedantic language stuff you’re really falling apart 😂
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Hang of, not hand of.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s ok, my colon doesn’t work very well either.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How would you write that, then?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
but,