On accident
I kind of can’t take people seriously when they say On accident, I don’t know or care if its more or less grammatical, it sounds like a child sputtering in my mind. It should be By accident or accidentally
Tummy
Any adult has zero business saying this lol
Dark Souls PvP is for people who can’t handle a real fighting game.
Spicy but I’ll allow it
Excusing folks with dyscalculia, those of you who speak proudly and openly about how bad you are at math can die in a fire.
Functioning adults are expected to read. You should also be able to calculate reasonable numbers and percentages without needing the calculator on your phone to know what 20% is; Or what one half of 3/8 is.
If someone is speaking proudly of how bad they are at math they most likely didn’t have dyscalculia. Most of us that do have it speak angrily or resignedly about how bad we are at math. What really gets me is when people proudly blame their “dyslexia” for why they are bad at math.
Perhaps I was in school before the idea of different learning styles was a thing. I always asked why, or how, things works. I need to understand the why to understand the how…or the how for the why… if that makes sense.
No, the work sheet doesn’t help, nor the make up work sheet. “That’s just how it is” does not explain anything. I’m bad at math because, beyond basic arithmetic, it’s all gobbledygook to me. Now I get self conscious, freeze up and can’t add simple numbers if put on the spot. So I make self deprecating comments about myself because I have no self esteem. Not that I’m proud of my failure.
I say openly that I’m bad at math because I cannot, even with intense effort, intuit concepts that are laid out as pure mathematical expressions. Why do graphs have eigenvectors? What does that even look like?!
Graphs don’t have vectors, spaces do. A space is just an n-dimensional “graph”. Vectors written in columns next to each other are matrices. Matrices can describe transformation of space, and if the transformation is linear (straight lines stay straight) there will be some vectors that stay the same (unaffected by the transformation). These are called eigenvectors.
Thanks for the response! Honestly wasn’t expecting any. I understand what you’re saying as a pure student would, but could you explain what you mean by “a space is a just an n-dimensional graph”?
Would the vertices map to some coordinate in space? Or am I completely misunderstanding.
I misunderstood a little, I assumed a function graph, which could be R^n space. But for the graph-theory-graphs (sets of vertices and edges) it’s similar, you can model the graph using adjacency matrix (NxN matrix for a graph of N vertices, where the vertices ‘mapped’ to a row and column by index. Usually consisting of real numbers representing distance between the “row” and “column” node) and look at it from the linear algebra point of view. That allows to model some characteristics of the graph. But honestly I haven’t mixed these two fields of maths much, so I hope what I wrote is somewhat understandable.
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So, the way you have phrased this is blatantly ableist. It’s like you’re saying you hate people who are blind because they refuse to learn to read. You’re annoyed with people who CHOOSE not to learn, and attacking other people who have a disability. Don’t use the technical terms for actual disabilities when that’s not what you are talking about. Your friend isn’t “OCD” because they like when things match.
Unless you have a health condition that causes it, morbid obesity is gross. I don’t mean being fat. I’m talking the mom in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Also, you shouldn’t need a rascal scooter to shop in Wal-Mart unless you have such a health condition.
Even health conditions. Yeah some people have issues where they struggle to lose weight, but that alone does not make you 500 pounds.
Semi-related, people who buy 8 2-liters of diet soda at a time at the grocery store. You just KNOW they don’t touch water.
If you use the word ‘hubby’ to refer to your husband I’m assuming you’re:
- white
- late 30s to 40s
- overweight
My childhood friend called her husband “hubby”, shes late 30s, but not white and not overweight. But I do feel a bit weird calling husband “hubby”, I won’t call my wife “wifey”
Nah, it’s cool. It’s a wifey’s world, after all. You should look it up.
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Ugh along the same lines, eXpresso drives me nuts.
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You’re incorrect, “expresso” in French is pronounced /ɛk.spʁɛ.so/.
I’m a snobby barista, so I stick to the more Italian-like prononciation even when speaking French, but the French word expresso is pronounced as its written.
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I prefer ex chethera, exclaimed with a fluorish
Professor Professorson?
I’ve noticed this in a lot of words watching youtube lately. Excape instead of escape, expecially, etc.
Me when I say “et cetera” in normal conversation
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Socks and slides is only acceptable footwear for taking the bin to the kerb or checking the mailbox. If you’re wearing them in public I immediately assume you are a classless dumbass and your opinion on anything is irrelevant.
I choose socks and sandals over proper footwear in order to demonstrate this. It keeps people’s expectations lower and makes life easier.
Sometimes I just wanna wear an outfit that makes people laugh and smile…
I’ve never seen the word ‘slide’ used like that here. I was debating over whether it was something more sock-like or more like a slip-on shoe or sandal before googling it.
Also how i feel about UGG boots in public, but if you wear socks and sandals anywhere i will judge you.
This is shallow, but not pedantic.
Agree, same with wearing sweatpants, if you are not doing actual sporting activities
One more: Conservatives are mostly less likely to have a higher education, less likely to be financially successful, more likely to be racist, more likely to lack critical thinking skills, less emotionally developed. And then there are the highly educated and rich hate mongers who stir up the rest for their own gains.
Shallow, maybe. But accurate? Absolutely
That is not an opinion though. It is an hypothesis. One that you have enough evidence for to act as if it is true, but not enough evidence to consider it a clear fact.
Difference in temperature cannot be expressed in °C. It’s not 5 °C warmer today than yesterday. It’s 5 K warmer. You can say “five degrees warmer”, but not “five degrees Celsius warmer” or “five Celsius warmer”. “Five Celsius degrees warmer” is also correct, but who’d do that?
The reason is that the Celsius scale has a fixed offset. If your birthday is in a week, you wouldn’t say it’s “one seventh of January from today”.
The reason is that the Celsius scale has a fixed offset.
Can you explain more on this? I still don’t get it.
As of now, although I am not a man of authority on this subject, I still think temperature difference can be expressed by using celcius simply because the celcius has the same equivalent difference as Kelvin. The difference of the two value of the same unit will still be the same unit.
First, from here
Since the standardization of the kelvin in the International System of Units, it has subsequently been redefined in terms of the equivalent fixing points on the Kelvin scale, so that a temperature increment of one degree Celsius is the same as an increment of one kelvin, though numerically the scales differ by an exact offset of 273.15.
Secondly from here
The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific point on the Celsius temperature scale or to a difference or range between two temperatures.
I was not aware of this before and this is probably one of the most pedantic things I’ve heard for a while - great answer.
Glad you appreciate it for what it is.
TIL; January has 49 days.
I think this one wins the post guys.
this is just incorrect
You might not say one seventh (sic presumably quarter is meant) of January, but you’d still be correct in every sense (except, again, mathematically) if you did.
Thank fuck I’m from the US and don’t have to fuck with any unit conversion fuckery.
The same applies to Fahrenheit, differences between temperatures in Fahrenheit should be expressed using the Rankine scale.
I was just making fun, since I disagree anyway.
It’s awkward as shit, but 7 days January is the same as 7 days July.
They’re called Lego pieces or just “Lego”, not “Legos”. It is the official way to say it, but more importantly I got used to it while growing up. I would always say “Lego ___”, for instance Lego sets, Lego bricks, Lego pieces: “Pass me the Lego brick.” The only time I would say “Lego” is as a group: “Bring the Lego upstairs.” Everytime I hear “Legos” my eye twitches because it sounds so wrong. Not sure where I picked this up but I will die on this hill.
That’s the official recommendation from LEGO as well. I found a piece of paper that mentions this in the box of one of my dad’s old LEGO sets.
They don’t want their brand to be turned into a generic word. It’s for the same reason Google doesn’t like it if you refer searching the internet as “googling” regardless of which search engine you use.
Lego my eggo
More like pet peeves, and not something I’d lose my sleep over, but they’re hilariously pedantic. I’ll focus on Latin because I’d rather not pick on existing linguistic communities.
⟨V⟩ and ⟨U⟩ are not different letters in Latin. Deal with it. The “right” way to use them is like this:
- Upper case - ⟨V⟩, always
- Lower case - ⟨u⟩ or ⟨v⟩, pick one, but don’t mix them
People fāiling to follow the əbove ɑre æs ənnoying æs someone insistently respelling English ⟨A⟩ with rændom junk bāsed on the sound. Like I æm doing now.
Same deal with ⟨I⟩ vs. ⟨J⟩. J’m not gojng to stop you from dojng so, but you can almost hear my “tsk, tsk, tsk” from a djstance.
There’s one way to pronounce Latin ⟨C⟩. It’s /k/ (as in “skill”). If you use /tʃ/ (as in “chimp”), /ʃ/ (as in “shampoo”), /ts/ (as in “cats”), /s/ (as in “silly”), you’re doing it wrong. Unless you’re handling Late Latin, but then follow some consistent set of rules dammit, not just “I use Latin like the Church does”.
“Veni, uidi, uici” is supposed to be pronounced ['we:ni: 'wi:di: wi:ki:]; or roughly “WAY-nee WEE-dee WEE-kee”. Once you pronounce it with random stuff like “vany VD vaitchy”, you’re wrecking all its alliterative appeal.
Speaking on that, Brutus is an unsung hero for going all stab-stabby against the guy who said the above. A shame that nobody did it against his adoptive child.
How did you get the pointy brackets?
⟨Like this⟩? I edited my .XCompose file to include shortcuts for those. Here are the relevant lines:
<dead_acute> <h> : "⟨" <dead_acute> <j> : "⟩"So I type acute+h/j and get them.
Here’s the full file if interested. Be warned that it’s biased towards Linguistics stuff.
I always hated how most people don’t pronounce the first R in “February”. It just sounded kinda weird to me.
I pronounce it “Febry”. So which R am I skipping?
Likely the first one. But honestly, this should be the new spelling.
I propose we replace the word entirely to something easier to spell and pronounce, such as “Feby”.
Yay. I like it.
If you’re going to fix the calendar, we should move SEPTember to position 7, OCTober to 8, NOvember to 9, and DECember to 10 where they belong (or just rename them all to be number-based instead of an arbitrary mish-mash of numbers, people (Julius, Augustus, etc.), and so on).
Now you have me paying attention to how I pronounce it. And now either way feels weird. Thanks a lot.
A power supply, the thing that gets plugged into AC mains power and outputs some sort of DC (usually USB now) to power electronics is not a “charger”. It (usually) doesn’t know anything about charging batteries, and connecting its output directly to a Li-ion battery would lead to an explosion. The charger is integrated into the device receiving that power.
“Portable battery” is a terrible term to describe a USB powerbank. Thousands of battery types are portable, but don’t have USB ports or output exactly the right voltage. Some powerbanks are sold without batteries.
My kid calls USB cables “chargers”. My sister witnessed this for the first time, turned to me (known techie and pedant) and was like “You’re okay with this?”
I think it’s mostly that particularly poor common grammar drives me nuts. Like, there’s no excuse to not know the difference between you’re and your. Once could be a mistake or a typo, but if it’s a pattern of behavior you’re just not trying. Get your shit together. :)
I definitely judge people on grammar and spelling. If you can’t be bothered to learn your native language, then I can’t be bothered to decode your shitty writing.
On Lemmy it’s hard to know if it’s their native language or not, be forgiving!
Mistakes like “you’re” vs “your” are generally not made by people learning English as a second language unless they’ve only learned by speaking (in which case, I’d expect all their spelling to be a mess given that English is a mess). Same with “could of” instead of “could’ve”.
A double negative should never remain negative.
I hate hearing “didn’t do nothing”, as in, they did not do anything. I hate it because it’s inconsistent.
“Didn’t do nothing” would typically be interpreted as “did not do something”. However “I did not, in fact, do nothing” might be interpreted as doing something.
Now you have grey zones and misunderstandings where you have no idea what they are talking about because they keep stacking negatives, with different meanings in different contexts.
Historically, double-negatives were considered proper or required in some dialects of English (or what would become English depending upon where one might draw that line). Many other languages require some form of negative agreement in negative sentences.
O! Unsweet tea! There is no such thing as unsweet. Unsweet implies that the sugar has been removed from the tea as in it was sweetened at some point then through some mechanical process the sweetener was removed.
The correct terminology would be “unsweetened”
Unsweet drives me up the wall!
People who think anyone uses literally to mean figuratively are annoying and too caught up in their crusade to realize their take is idiotic. No one uses it to mean figuratively. People use it to emphasize regardless of the figurative nature of language. It’s semantic drift that happens to most words that mean something similar to “in actuality” (e.g. really, actually). Even in other languages.
