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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. Avoid politics (NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out)
  4. Posts must be original/unique
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite was the would of/would've bot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.

The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”

I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I seen alot of people who type the same way. Their so dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see what you did they're

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.

Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!

I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell "neither" if I just remember the e comes before the i... that's the problem.

It's like saying "if you want to be rich just get more money" or "NASCAR is easy cuz it's all left turns"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I after E, except after C; when it sounds like "ee".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

....or when sounded like "ay" as in "neighbor" or "weigh".

Actually, let me double check that with my foreign buddies Keith and Heidi, they've got eight children who are all cops and busted a major counterfeit heist the other day. Weird, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn't cyberpunk enough yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought it's funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like "fck you descriptivist" and they were downvoted into oblivion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

fck you descriptivist

You mean prescriptivist? 😅

(beep boom I'm a human)