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Stop lollygagging! And… regular gagging!

“A stitch in time saves nine”

I dunno, but I saw one user whose account was created a century ago

I try to avoid it myself, but that’s not always possible. How could I hold others to a higher standard than I hold myself?

What I cannot condone is lethal force by the state. I discourage it from individuals as well.

Spanish is somewhere in the lower-left quadrant.

Every time I see that screenshot it hits so hard.

sweeping afterwards was always part of the job

cleaning the litterbox is actually less unpleasant:

• doesn’t have to happen at a specific time

• if I fuck it up, it doesn’t spill over into other tasks

• it’s an act of service towards someone else and thus easier to motivate me than something that’s for myself

Trust to be accurate or trust to be unbiased? I trust the hyperlocal paper to be unbiased but the articles are all over the place. I trust most large publications to be accurate but with their articles and editorials in line with the paper’s overall bias.

Income tax? No.

Sales tax? Yes.

Came here to say. I can often remember the Spanish word when I forget the English word.

If I have access to free food, I eat it. Doesn’t matter if I’m hungry, as long as I physically can I will.

I was only broke and homeless for a little over a year, and now I always know wherey next meal is coming from, but I can’t seem to shake the mindset of that low point in my life.

I haven’t had that problem here, ever.

My bestie married at sixteen. It was an elopement, though, they never got engaged.

It’s not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.

It’s just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their “57” brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.

The feet ones or the butt ones?

a living language

Yes

do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun?

I never have occasion to say either.

How do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?

Wursht-uh-shur

How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?

Love 'em. My current favorite is “shakshuka”.

are onomatopoeias even words to you?

yeah, by definition

insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer

Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.

can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57

They’re not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.

convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling

I’m not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I’ll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as “catsup” and the pastry as “doughnut” and the cultured dairy as “yoghurt”.

That’s not an opinion, you’re just wrong on the facts. And that’s okay! The first step of learning is discovering your own ignorance.

• spelling “catsup” as “ketchup” is as juvenile as spelling “night light” as “nite lite”

• Ohio isn’t part of the Midwest

• all of Rory’s boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst

• using a slur “because it’s not a bad word in my culture” still isn’t okay

We do have comment and post karma. It’s better with just those and not a running total.