keegomatic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes their dream home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but:

  from whence

  Did you know “whence” means “from where,” so it’s not really necessary to say “from whence?” It’s not a mistake, exactly, because “from whence” has been around forever and is considered acceptable usage. “Whence” without the “from” seems, though, to be more correct in a sense, and has certainly been more common for a long time.

  Decent discussion with interesting links: english.stackexchange.com/q/10906

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great point that I haven’t heard before, and it seems intuitively correct. Considering overall economic mobility has gotten worse over the decades, I suppose one way you could validate this is by looking at the stats for economic mobility differentiated by… academic success? Measured IQ? Skill acquisition? None of those are good isolated indicators but maybe there’s a good measure where you can say “economic mobility increased for skilled people over time, but decreased for less-skilled people over the same time period.”

  This is not a criticism of your point, by the way. I think you’re right. Just wondering exactly how right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spoken like a foreign bad actor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the same simple point since the beginning of this conversation. In fact, I initiated the conversation by replying to you, so I set the topic of conversation, and I haven’t wavered from it. Care to answer my question that you avoided?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, by your logic, you hate the people of the United States, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You understand that even a democratic government can be oppressive, right? You can absolutely dislike a government without disliking the people it represents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, yes you obviously can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Initially he thought it would be a great video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming “orderly” was supposed to be “already,” what caused that mistake? Just curious. Speech to text? Because it seems like more of a verbal mistake than an autocorrect one, but imagining someone doing speech-to-text for lemmy comments seems unlikely. Unless maybe it’s for accessibility reasons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there might also be a subcultural difference, too, because there are different types of “tryna” that are used by different groups of people, and maybe being used to a more versatile “tryna” would make “tryna not x” more natural to speak.

  Tryna A: “I’m just tryna screw in this lightbulb,” “I’m not tryna hurt you”

  Tryna B (expanded tryna, not spoken by everyone, mostly skews younger and bro-ier I think): “You tryna go to Taco Bell right now?” “You tryna chill tomorrow?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting. I feel differently. “Trying not to kill myself” sounds a lot more natural than the split “trying to not kill myself.” “Trying to not kill myself” sounds like internet slang that makes the statement sound awkward on purpose so it’s taken less seriously. But the former format is way more natural to speak.