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- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 day ago:
Well, db0 isn’t strictly anarchist, I joined because it’s a pro-piracy instance (and also have no essential problems with the other important positions of the instance, i.e. anarchism and being pro-AI). So it’s unavoidable that some non-anarchists join as well. I’ve seen some - but still very few - db0 users who do come off as tankies. Either way even if there was more of them it still makes no sense to me why the above user would find it relevant to shit on db0 in this thread.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 2 days ago:
It’s not a very funny shitpost, if that’s the case.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 2 days ago:
Tf does db0 even have to do with this? Are you ok?
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 2 days ago:
Where can I call women sl*ts and wh#res when they disagree with me on opinion?
Where can I call men bitch*s, when they try to correct me?
Where do femcels, Andrew Tates and wizards talk here?
Strong “14-year-old discovers /b/” vibes there.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
This sort of advice would be more useful 200 pages ago… but anyway it’s always good to search for an annotated edition. I read Norton critical edition,* it was really good, had diagrams showing what the different parts of the boat are called, a glossary, supplementary essays, and throughout the text all sorts of footnotes (some of them maybe too explicitly interpretative, but oh well). But I believe even the slightly more modest but still seriously prepared editions such as Oxford World Classics would do the job.
* a critical edition means the editors didn’t just reproduce an existing text, but worked off the most “original” materials available, such as the first edition or the author’s own manuscripts
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Writing? Queequeg-Ishmael yaoi shows up on Google Images, this stuff is way outside just dark corners.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Yes. It’s probably my favourite book ever. No need for it to be a page-turner if each page is interesting by itself.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
Because the 1200$ paywall they put behind the physical editions
From what I understood, that’s the price of used copies of the second edition these days, not how much it cost when it was actually published. I have no idea how I could estimate what’s the objectively appropriate price considering the funding, expenses and the production costs of such a dictionary, and I think neither do you.
particularly the SOED has some of the most well put together definitions of any dictionary for casual lookup
So you want SOED, not OED. SOED doesn’t cost $100 a year, it’s available as an Android app that costs a one-time $30 payment.
If your reaching for one the logic should be that you want the best/most accurate and descriptive one possible, no?
Not necessarily. OED’s entries can be so massive they’re difficult to navigate and follow, and the length of the definition doesn’t necessarily say much about its accuracy. The definitions in ODE and SOED are frequently more clear, perfectly adequate and faster to access and read through, e.g. if you’re reading Shakespeare or Milton and just want to quickly find the word’s meaning without all the additional scholarly apparatus distracting you. At least, such is my experience using dictionaries.
I strongly agree both with the idea that science should be freely available, and that it should be available as a local copy (PDFs, etc.). I also made my opinion on academic pricings in general and OED’s price in particular clear in one of the previous comments. I know full well that they’re not the only option, even in a capitalist society (many continental European academic institutions and Academies publish their major dictionaries, comparable in complexity to OED, online for free). The only thing I disagree with is singling out OED as if it’s doing something particularly unprecedentant and almost heinous.
They likely don’t want to publish it on CD or similar locally available (non-online) format because it’d easily get pirated. But, I say, maybe people should organise and pirate the existing database themselves.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
Also, I don’t buy the “academic quality things should be incredibly expensive because its meant for scholars and university libraries” argument.
You don’t have to buy it, because I didn’t use the argument and never would.
It cost less to update a database or serve thousands of visitors than you might think especially for simple database lookups sent through https.
If you think OED’s expenses can be boiled down to updating the database and keeping the site online, it means you still don’t understand what OED is and how it is produced.
I get the impression you’re primarily looking to be infuriated (perhaps appropriate given the community, but still) rather than to talk about this seriously.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
Well, you can use it to check spellings too. Medieval and early modern spellings, even. Sometimes when seeing pedantic people online correcting others’ spellings, I used to check OED and find old texts where the “misspelling” existed normally. Ideally the first editions of Shakespeare, with forms such as “scornfull” instead of scornful, etc. So the pedants would either have to admit it’s not such a big mistake, or Shakespeare was illiterate too.
Anyway, yeah it’s drama for its own sake.
OTOH the price is too high, but that’s normal for English academic publications in general. It’s a very rotten market that’s not really aimed at individual buyers but at university libraries.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, so why all the fuss about the inaccessibility of OED? Most people don’t need OED in particular, spellings and most relevant meanings can be checked in normal smaller dictionaries (although these days autocorrect solves most spelling problems before people would even think of checking a dictionary, and people even treat Google as a dictionary because it provides definitions when needed).
Not that the pricing isn’t awful and likely overblown, but that’s a different story.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
You couldn’t do that, OED is so massive they’re not even printing it anymore. Old sets are on Amazon for $1000+
It’s weird to talk about “the dictionary”, there’s no single default dictionary, they’re all different and this is a dictionary for specialists. It’s a historical dictionary, so it covers words and their usage from up to a millenium ago (although IIRC it doesn’t include words that haven’t survived into Modern English, so 400-ish years ago).
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t enshittification, it was always a paid service. The extortionate price is aimed at universities and is sadly typical for anglophone academic pricings.
Anyway, OED is useful for scholarly purposes. Most users need a normal, smaller dictionary, not OED-level of detail. That’s fulfilled by dicts such as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate edition (at merriam-webster.com) and Oxford Dictionary of English (yes that’s different from Oxford English Dictionary).
If you really need OED, you can pirate the 2nd edition, since it was published as a program on CD. It’s on Rutracker, IIRC. Let me know if you can’t find it.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 weeks ago:
Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?
- Comment on Biased source 4 weeks ago:
Little Little Dino the Very Big :3
- Comment on Biased source 4 weeks ago:
It’s a name of Italian origin, shortened from a name such as Bernardino, Corradino. -ino is a diminutive suffix (Bernardino = little Bernard), so Dino is etymologically a twice-diminutive name.
Doesn’t really meet the expectations set by dino-saur :D
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 1 month ago:
Yeah, nobody in their right mind could tolerate all this pay for play bullshit.
- Comment on smol 2 months ago:
:3
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 2 months ago:
to those who downvoted, why?
Because of this part:
they must be an only child or have siblings within that age as well, otherwise the interests are not overlapping enough to spend time together
- Comment on in sickness and in health 2 months ago:
I have no idea what “classic literature” this refers to?
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 2 months ago:
Yeah, you could keep usual moderators as the basis and ultimate arbiters, but it would be, at the very least, interesting to try your approach. E.g., anyone can check the mod queue and be randomly assigned to moderate a recently reported post, and to avoid abuse or mistakes it could require 2 or 3 people agreeing on how to resolve something.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 2 months ago:
This you?
- Comment on What if memes aren't better than TikTok for your brain? 3 months ago:
Before you put a minus
This made me consider putting a minus.
You can, of course, downvote the post as much as you want if you’re offended, I don’t care if you don’t believe me.
This made me put a minus.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 3 months ago:
Ancient Greek sure is a bitch to spell in English.
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- Comment on venomous 5 months ago:
Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I’m lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:
It is thought to be an ancient mammalian characteristic, as many non-monotreme archaic mammal groups also possess venomous spurs.
(The monotremes are the platypus and the echinda, which unlike the platypus isn’t venomous but still has the spurs.)
- Tiny Fossils and the Big Picture: Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs [lecture by Brian M. Davis]lemmy.dbzer0.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 7 months ago:
They also have no blood or blood vessels, just a little heart and blood-like stuff splashing around.
- Comment on Moon Worshippers 8 months ago:
Observations by Pliny the Elder… I love the fact that someone is still reading ancient ass proto-science, but it really really has to be taken with a grain of salt.
