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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldtoAnarchyChess@sopuli.xyzEn Croatiant
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    8 hours ago

    For those squares at the bottom to qualify as squares, they’d have to be… you know… squares.

    You don’t put a chess board on a round table and say the area around the board is another “square” do you?

    Incidentally, that’s why square tables are banned at the highest levels of play.




  • Short version: cable is more optimized for sending everyone the same content at the same time. (And all users connected to cable get all channels all the time, even if they’re only watching one or two at the time.) Internet is made for each user getting what they ask for when they ask for it.

    Either technology can be used for either use case, but they were originally built for different purposes and so are optimized differently.

    Just like a subway train would make a pretty crappy private one-person vehicle for commuting to work and the grocery store. As would a fleet of cars be crappy for public mass transit.










  • Oh, I guess one thing about 4b. Thinking more about 4b, I find I can’t really imagine it being said “you got you some candy” instead of “you gotchu some candy” or “you gotcha some candy”.

    Also, leaving out the personal dative feels too formal to use with young kids unless being at least a little stern.

    Oh, and aside from the obvious differences in the pronouns involved (“she” only refers to female subjects, “it” only for “things”… can you tell I’m not that knowledgeable on linguistics jargon, lol) I don’t really see much difference in who is referred to in those examples, nor in contrasting them with equivalent examples without the dative except for the aforementioned differences in formality and “playfulness”.







  • Native (midwestern American) English speaker here.

    They all sound a little humorous to me. As if the speaker is speaking kindof playfully. Maybe as if to a young child, or perhaps putting on a purposefully-funny (southern American?) accent.

    But aside from that, they all sound quite natural to me and I could see myself using any/all of them if I was in a relatively playful mood.

    Even 5c doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. (Maybe a pet of unknown gender got into the bag of candy? “Control your damned dog! It broke into my kitchen and it got it some candy out of my cupboard!”)

    That said, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen an asterisk on a “grammatically incorrect” sentence/construction and thought “why did they mark that unacceptable?”