flat housing

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is the same people who add a silent u to words like color, or has a stroke while spelling the word ‘check’. They say things like bonnet, boot, lorry, lift, innit. I mean, imagine getting into a ‘lift’ just to descend. There is no saving them now.

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  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Hey, the rest of the English speakers in the world are able to handle proper spelling and don’t need a simplified, reduced character count variation of the language to succeed

    • Canada

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  • thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Hey, we stole some of our vocabulary from the French and we’re gonna fuqueing use it! Besides, “check” already exists so we use “cheque”. Simplified English is ironically complicating the language. But the ‘u’ in everything is silly

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  • notabot@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oi! Knock it off bruv!

    I’ll have you know that the u in colour is very important. It nake the other o sound more like a u. Furthermore, check is a perfectly good word, but you cant pay with it. For that you need a cheque, and you can’t pay with those in most places now either. You car would have a bonnet and a boot, but a lorry would only have the former. Decending in a lift is no more unexpected than doing so in an elevator, and it significantly fewer letters too.

    Now, having sorted out these minor linguistic quirks, would you care for a nice cup of tea and a chat about the weather?

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How do you explain pavement (sidewalk, the rest of the roads are also usually paved), windshield (windscreen? A window screen has holes in it!), jumper (it’s a shirt, why would it be jumping?), etc!

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I mean, imagine getting into a ‘lift’ just to descend.

    No different than an elevator. Imagine getting into an elevator to decrease your elevation.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Smh, elevat(e)or. That’s how they can go both ways, silly.

      🌟 The more you know 🌈

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about driveways and parkways.

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• bearoftheisle@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I realised i don’t know what the term is that corresponds to apartment building, but flat is just apartment right (ESL)? They’re usually just one floor in my experience, as opposed to regular houses which are usually two. Makes a lot of sense to me

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s flat, vertically.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Must be hot in there. The walls are all 90 degrees.

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    • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Image

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