Eylrid
@Eylrid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Linguistics 3 months ago:
I love militant descriptivists
- Comment on Linguistics 3 months ago:
I love militant descriptivists
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 4 months ago:
It’s a variant of Soup Time: knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-time
- Comment on How common of a name is Ghislaine? 4 months ago:
Etymologically, the name is usually said to derive from the oblique case of a Proto-West Germanic root: *gīsl “hostage, pledge”
Well that’s some nominative irony
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 4 months ago:
Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of uni(tary) matrix Zero One
- Comment on Least Weasel 4 months ago:
The lesser of two weasels
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 4 months ago:
Code switching is pretty common, but this sounds like something different since she’s using different accents with the same people.
- Comment on They're everywhere!!! 5 months ago:
Horton Hears a Who if Horton was the one saying “Boil that dust speck! Boil that dust speck!”
- Comment on Bunch of Muppets 5 months ago:
Mee, mee, meemee!
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
ℕ₀* is ℕ with 0 without 0
- Comment on Sad 6 months ago:
Upsidedown pineapples
- Comment on What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size? 6 months ago:
Planets and stars should become less dense, since they have less gravity pulling inward. Either way though it would cause major effects.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
That’s not how it works. I’m a door dash driver. We get a base pay, (usually $2-$3 per order but can be more if it’s peak hours) plus tip. The base pay isn’t affected by tips.
We see the total (base pay plus tip) when we are deciding whether to take an order. Orders without tips are rejected by most drivers.
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 10 months ago:
That’s reasonable, but it means that whether you count by volume or mass the atmosphere is a negligible contribution to the average.
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 10 months ago:
Counting by volume would get tricky with the atmosphere. Where do you draw the line of where the atmosphere ends? Even thousands of miles from Earth there is very thin atmosphere.
- Comment on BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Man in his 60s held after Hadrian's Wall tree cut down 1 year ago:
I want to know what was going through their head? Why did they do it?
- Comment on Can I make a volcano? 1 year ago:
The comic is still running
- Comment on Why words like 'okay' and 'taxi' are universally understood across the world but survival related ones like 'help', 'water', 'food' remained nation specific? 1 year ago:
“Ok” was coined in the mid 1800s, new enough in the grand scheme of things