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hakase

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  • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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  • This entire thread is /c/badlinguistics

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  • I laughed way too hard at this.

  • Prove you're not a robot

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  • That's always been my problem with CAPTCHAs - they're so subjective!

  • What's the best general-interest Lemmy instance?

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  • We use a laptop outputting to a TV over HDMI as our main TV. That way my wife and I can watch whatever we want as usual, but also do crosswords, browse Lemmy together, etc.

  • What's the best general-interest Lemmy instance?

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  • The main alt I use for the family TV is on SJW. Federated with basically all of the other mainstream instances but no porn.

  • Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown

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  • As a lifelong Nintendo fan, I've been rooting against them in pretty much everything for close to a decade at this point.

  • What do you think the age demographic on Lemmy is?

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  • 39 here, exact same backstory.

  • Google Drive started killing third-party apps: End of the Road for Google Drive in Transmit

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  • Looks like I moved to proton drive just in time!

  • [Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help: ask anything!

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  • Thanks for the help!

    Turns out it was a hardware issue - I eventually found that I couldn't connect to Wi-Fi in my mint live usb or Windows 10 on that computer either after a bit more testing. A full power off and unplug seems to have reset whatever was wrong with the Wi-Fi adapter and all is working again, thank goodness.

    Thanks again for taking the time to help! It's what I've come to love about this community in the two months I've been in it!

  • [Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help: ask anything!

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  • I'm on Linux mint 22 and use surfshark as my VPN. It has a Killswitch to ensure that I can't be connected to the Internet when the VPN isn't active.

    But, when I turned on the Killswitch, suddenly all of my Wi-Fi options disappeared completely from my network manager. I can't connect to the Internet at all - the option is completely gone.

    I disabled the Killswitch and rebooted but that didn't do anything.

    I used time shift to revert to a snapshot from yesterday but still no Wi-Fi options.

    I tried disabling and stopping the process that turning on the Killswitch enables, but no luck there either.

    Uninstalling surfshark doesn't do anything either and just requires another time shift.

    At this point I'm at my wit's end. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  • FBI visits man who said anyone who murders Kamala would be 'a hero'

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  • You're getting predictably trashed in this thread, but I wanted to thank you for bringing a small semblance of sanity to this ridiculous circle jerk.

  • Craaaawling in my skiiin

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  • I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.

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  • Here's my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):

    "There's been no meaning shift. The "possessive" and "envious" uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek."

    It's always been synonymous with "envious", as far back as we can trace.

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  • This isn't the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from "comfortable" on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.

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  • This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren't scientists and therefore don't need to learn Celsius, so this isn't really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.

  • Seriously.

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  • According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.

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  • (on mobile, so sorry for any formatting weirdness)

    English teachers will only give you an arbitrary, subjective answer about whether it's a word - you want a linguist if you want an objective answer.

    Since we're dealing with two different "words" (roots) here, factory and overclocked, the first thing to look for is compound stress. Many compound words in English get initial stress: compare "blackbird" and "a black bird".

    This isn't foolproof, however. For some speakers there are compounds that don't get compound stress - some speakers say "paper towel" as expected, while others say "paper towel", but it's still a compound either way.

    So how can we actually tell that paper towel is one word? See if the first member of the potential compound (the non-head) can be modified in any way.

    For example, we know doghouse is a compound because in "a big doghouse" big can only refer to the house, and cannot refer to "the house of a big dog". Similarly, blackboard must be one word because it can take what appear to be contradictory modifiers: " a green blackboard".

    So, in the same way, paper towel and toilet paper are one word because "big paper towel" can't mean "a towel made from big paper" and "pink toilet paper" can't mean "paper for a pink toilet". (Toilet paper also gets compound stress.)

    Yet another way to test is by semantic drift (meaning shift). As mentioned earlier, blackboards don't have to be black, so the meaning of the compound doesn't perfectly correspond to the pieces of the word - instead, the fact that it's a vertical board you write on in chalk is much more important to the meaning. This is because once the pieces combine to form a new word, that new word can start to shift away from the meaning of the pieces. Again, however this process takes time, so it's not a perfect test.

    So, back to the original question: is "factory-overclocked" one word?

    Well, it doesn't get compound stress, and for me I can still say things like "it's home-factory-overclocked" to mean that it was overclocked in its home factory, so the first member can take modifiers. And, the whole thing still means what the pieces mean.

    So, in my grammar, "factory-overclocked" is two words. But for some of you "home factory overclocked" may not be possible, which would indicate that it's started to become one word for you. Everyone's grammar is different, but we can still test for these categories.

    If you instead mean by your question, "can factory and overclocked be combined with a hyphen?", however, I can't help you, because language-specific writing conventions are subjective and arbitrary, and not something that linguists usually care very much about.

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  • The worst part of this comic is that philosophy bro is clearly not even very good at his field, since there's a much better Cartesian parallel to be made here (and I'm not even a philosopher).

    "I think, therefore I am" is actually leaving out (imo) the most important part of Descartes's argument. He was trying to find literally anything that he could know without a doubt was true. The problem is, that's really hard, as our existence-troubled shopper has discovered. Descartes could doubt the existence of God, he could doubt the existence of goodness, of truth. All of these things might not actually exist. Descartes could even doubt his own existence.

    In fact, literally the only thing Descartes could conclude without a doubt was true was the fact that he was doubting at all. So, since that's the only thing he could be sure of, that's what he built his argument for rationalism upon.

    This perfectly mirrors the existential crisis the so-called philosopher comes upon, but instead of starting the shopper right where Descartes started, he instead just provides what must seem like almost a non sequitur in context, since if the man is currently doubting his existence, he can also doubt that he's thinking. What he cannot doubt, is that he is in fact doubting.

    "I doubt. Therefore, I think. I think, therefore I am."