I hate to defer to a random comment because as is well established, Einstein famously said “don’t believe everything you read on the internet”… but the dictionary has to be deferred to, and it backs up your comment. I stand corrected, thanks for the info!
I looked up the dictionary definition in a fit of pedantry earlier and they’re right, they do refer to distinct different things. The more you know ey!
A distinction I did not make, good point. Maybe I misunderstand, I thought emojis and emoticons were the same thing.
Or is it an “all emojis are emoticons, but all emoticons are not emojis” kinda situation?
How much of the current lemmy base are ex-reddit? I remember emoticons being heavily frowned upon there. It may be a cultural hangover from the rexodus peeps.
I’d say to be careful what you wish for, because once the game has begun, it doesn’t end until the cat is bored. It’s impossible to resist the cute drop / sad little cat-activation-noise when you get distracted and don’t notice.
One of my friends in Finland has a couple of cats, one is fairly disinterested in people but the other loves to play fetch with her toys. It’s ridiculously cute.
Sounds like a job for Vicious Mockery. Call in the bard!
Leigh can be pronounced like ‘Lee’ or ‘Lay’
You can have a use for something, and you can also use something (first one is pronounced the same as the end of ‘papoose’, second one is pronounced the same as ‘ooze’)
Yes, English is weird.
‘Bough’ and ‘cough’ are not pronounced the same. ‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same. ‘Knee’ and ‘Leigh’ are pronounced the same. ‘Neigh’ and ‘nay’ are pronounced the same. ‘Polish’ (the nationality) and ‘polish’ (as in what you do to a metal object) are not pronounced the same. ‘Tear’ (as in to rip) and ‘tear’ (as in to cry) are spelled the same, but not pronounced the same. Other words which are spelled the same, but pronounced differently:
resume / resume present / present record / record close / close use / use live / live
I don’t get the hate for kale. Never would buy it after decades of reading how horrid it is… Decided one day to try it and found it’s actually refreshing and tasty, aside from the health benefits
One day, you’ll realise it was deep minimal organic afrotech dubhouse, and come to your senses
Might be a case of ‘build it and they will come’.
I’ve been writing dance music for about 20 years, I think the relentless pigeonholing of genres can get ridiculous, but if it’s within that cast array I might be able to help… Before someone else wildly disagrees :)
That’s awesome. Wish it was standard practice!
It’s quite scary to think that not only are kids not being taught logic, but many are being taught anti-logic; magical thinking etc. It blows my mind that right wingers screech about ‘grooming’ and indoctrination while they’re teaching their kids divisive skybeardguy nonsense. Literally grooming them to be religious.
Imo this is why they pushback and create false equivalence, because they know they’re losing their sad little foothold. Notice how whoever is downvoting comments in this thread has nothing to say.
Some ex ellent additions! Seeing as we’re all now well aware of each others’ religions, maybe they can replace the pointless RE (religious education in UK) class with a ‘Life Skills’ class.
Ugh after having them come into my house once… I feel you. I love you, little ant bros, just not in my house!
This is so frickin’ cool. I’ve been learning the occasional interesting fact about ants for nigh on 30 years and here I am, still finding out cool things about these amazing little creatures.
It’s TILs all the way down!
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