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@ dandelion @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I'll consider putting it in my bio.

  • no, I'm not named after the character in The Witcher, I've never played
  • pronouns: she/her

I definitely feel like I'm more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

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    How can we make the Fediverse more positive and wholesome?

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  • we seem to be popular with reddit users that were banned from reddit, which on average seems to translate to less than wholesome behavior - so maybe lemmy's whole reddit-alternative branding works against us that way.

    maybe developing a distinct UI so it's not just a reddit clone, and directing features in a way that is appealing more to particular communities or people we wish to attract would be a good idea, rather than trying to directly replace reddit as a whole?

    for example, attracting academics by supporting built-in LaTeX syntax rather than requiring a browser extension

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  • pls drop the /j 🥺

  • What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?

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  • What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?

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  • never heard other families say "oy vey" growing up. As an adult I learned it's a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol

  • Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor

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  • it's a lot less controversial when phrased as euthanasia should be an option as a part of palliative care ...

  • like 80% of internet slang

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  • I was imagining in my example that "green" might be adopted to mean red only in certain contexts, like used ironically or humorously to mean red, not in a way that erased or overrode the word's general meaning as green. This is to match the symmetry of misused words like gyatt that continue to have their original meaning and use, but get warped into a new meaning through misuse and then adoption of that misuse in a certain context, such as among white children on Fortnite.

    As opposed to a complete inversion or change of the meaning of the word such that "green" would no longer mean green anymore but only mean red (this of course could still happen, it just wasn't the kind of case I was trying to illustrate).

  • like 80% of internet slang

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    you need to teach your kids about consent

  • like 80% of internet slang

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  • I am not sure that's true, language can absolutely be misused, when an individual uses a word in a way nobody recognizes, it fails to function as language and is worth considering genuinely misused. It's only when a "misuse" gains enough traction that people can effectively use it to communicate that it is an evolution rather than a misuse.

    The point is that the language is about use, e.g. getting a concept across, and it can absolutely fail or be applied incorrectly.

    Take for example if a variety of mugs are on a table and I wanted the red mug. If I said "pass me the green mug", that would be a misuse of "green" as meaning red, and it would fail to communicate, as long as there are other mugs and my meaning cannot be inferred.

    If there is clearly only one mug, a person might think I was mistaken or colorblind and still get my intended meaning, but it would still be considered a misuse of "green".

    If enough people used "green" to mean red, maybe because my family thought the mistake was funny and adopted "green" to mean red as an in-joke, it might grow out of being a misuse into a new meaning.

    The same thing is happening when white children misuse AAVE and generate slang, "gyatt" for example meaning "god" as in "gyatt damn" becomes mistakenly applied to mean a butt because of misunderstanding about how gyatt was originally used. The misuse becomes new slang, but it could have easily remained an obscure and forgotten misuse if it didn't catch-on with enough people such that it took on a new meaning.

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  • right, but when pedantically correcting the idea that pollen isn't an example of dimorphic reproduction, making gross generalizations like that seems strangely out of place, since the whole issue they took in the first place was a (mostly true / appropriate) generalization ...

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  • ok, but just so you know, I did not consent

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  • also, pollen contains the male gametes - how is that not dimorphic? Plants vary in their sexual strategies, but I do think it's fair to think of pollen as containers of semen or sperm ... or at least that's always how it's been presented anyway 🤷‍♀️

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  • haha

    <shuffles nervously>

  • We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

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  • lol

  • We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

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  • if you are familiar with object vs subject in grammar you already know the rule, who is used when it's the subject, whom when the object:

    Who is that?

    That's who ate my ice cream.

    Whom did you give ice cream to?

    The ice cream went to the one whom I saw first.

    This rule is the same as knowing when to use she or he vs when to use her or him, it's no different.

    However, most people don't use whom correctly and it can just be avoided entirely, most people will just use who as the object anyway and it will sound more natural to them:

    Who did you give ice cream to?

    The ice cream went to the one who I saw first.

    Using whom in these cases can make you sound formal or fancy, and draws attention.

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  • we already have thornless blackberry varieties...

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    disco

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  • hm?

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    disco

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  • had to google it, but it seems to be Bloodhound Gang's The Bad Touch

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  • loss has always been boring

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  • fake and gay?