JacksonLamb

@JacksonLamb@lemmy.world

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Compelling argument.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Me too. It’s the one word that triggers something in my brain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oxford spelling, Oxford comma: what’s not to like?

Anything with a United Nations style spellcheck will sort it for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Depends on the tense.

I burn the toast.

I have burned the toast

I burrnt the toast

I had burnt the toast

Using burned in all of them sounds like a hillbilly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do you by any chance know where I could read a good introduction to Canadian English?

I can write fluently in UK and US English but Canadian sometimes has me stumped.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Same what a feel bad meme.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think you’re suffering from a form of justification bias. That sounds like something out of a dystopian sci fi.

Here’s the MUCH more realistic scenario that makes his contract unethical:
- Scientists try to introduce mutation into embryo
- Mother for whatever reason decides she doesn’t want to have the embryo implanted.
- Who knows, maybe they can’t afford kids. Or her and the father are about to break up. Or she has found out she’s at risk of complications.
- Or maybe they overhear that the experiment didn’t go as planned and the mutation is useless or possibly harmful.
Anyway if they say no they’re suddenly in debt millions of yuan.

Implanting an embryo into a person under those conditions would be coercion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

More like 2 and half fives.

That would be an indeterminate number that starts at 7 and goes up by 2.5 increments depending on how many half fives there are (since in this version it’s not specified).

7, 9.5, 12, 14.5…

I love this. I thought English had some crazy aspects but this is next level.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This topic is flushing out some concerning people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

By all accounts what he did worked

What “accounts” are you reading? You need to read more accurate accounts, because what he did didn’t work and the experiment wasn’t very useful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Seems like splitting hairs, at best, for you to claim the three edited human babies who were born from this experiment aren’t part of the experiment. He fully aimed to study them and they are still being scientifically monitored.

He also had a bizarre contract he made the parents sign that if they changed their minds they had to reimburse him the financial costs of the experiment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That only makes it worse.

Two and a half fives = 12.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-acknowlegements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bold to assume I’m not in this one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-acknowlegements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What she has been through is awful.

I wish though that more people knew the difference between an Acknowledgements page and a Thank You page.

This should properly be titled Anti Thanks.

Acknowledgements should only cover individuals and institutions whose contributions are a direct factor in the material body of the text.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking bot is still out there messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The first time I got one it was in the context of a couple of real people reaching out so I believed her!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨laughs in belter creole⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well wallah.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨laughs in belter creole⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your kid is called The Expanse?

Acceptable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough.

Putting a question mark after “I disagree” makes it sound like you’re trying to convey that the disagreement is faint or in doubt, btw.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
S2 is better than S1.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I appreciate this comment.

particularly women with some sort of past trauma that gives them an instinctual fear response

Surely the answer to traumatised women is to give them accommodations and special treatment, not to punish anyone who sets off that trauma response because of perceptions about that person’s race or gender.