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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

whoever runs their social media types pure fire.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

Who says you can't hear tone in text?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more of a Wictionary guy, myself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Is that a dictionary for witches? Or did you misspell wiktionary?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

In what was almost certainly a precedented move, Brian was wrong.

And so is my spell-checker.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is he arguing with fhe dictionary?!!wtf

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

My opinion is that once someone invents a word, it exists forever, even if it's later marked as obsolete/archaic.

Conversely, just because the dictionary doesn't have a word, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Many words are forgotten, so I disagree with that they exist forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, I can say all manner of things like bork and twiddledee, but I don't think I can get marblegargler to stick.

Unless a meme picks it up or is in at least the urban dictionary, it doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Fiddlesticks. "marblegargler" is perfectly cromulent. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I agree but he is saying the opposite lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I know lol

Just reminded me of those that consider the dictionary a holy book, and new words against the Rules of Nature™

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

GRRK (pronounced with rolled Rs)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Brian represents that group of people that just say, “No it’s not!”, with authority. I forgot what they call themselves.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The call themselves right. But not in the sense that they're aligned with that political ideology. They just think they're the only correct ones and everyone... else... is... (...wait a second...).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Not coincidental, they both stem from the directional description "right".

In Old English riht meant both straight and not left. That's why "go right ahead" and "go straight ahead" are synonymous even tho that sense has been largely lost.

"Right" then got the sense of proper/correct, likely because right-handedness is more common and thus the right hand was associated with being the "correct" hand. This is why you are "dextrous", from Latin dexter meaning directionally right.

The political "right" as in conservative also comes from the direction right because in the French National Assembly after the 1789 revolution, the conservatives sat on the right while the progressives were seated on the left.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Contrabrians

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

OMG no. That’s not it! Jesus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Confidently incorrect, to me at least.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago
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