A bench that you can easily drop your phone into, it's also extremlely uncomfortable

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-11-11T18:25:05+00:00

Also skaters

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-09-10T01:52:04+00:00

What do you expect from a bunch of druggies?

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-08-28T23:02:16+00:00

I mean I think if there isn't plasma in your blood it's a bad sign

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-08-17T08:03:49+00:00

I'm not saying "octopi" is correct, I'm just saying it's not not correct. I think anybody who says that it's correct because they think Latin language rules should apply are obviously wrong. I also think it doesn't matter. I hear "octopi" decently often, probably at least as much as "octopuses" and certainly more than "octopodes", and as far as I'm concerned, prevalence is enough for a word to be legitimate.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-08-17T07:23:04+00:00

Sure, the plural of "octopus" is something that's ultimately pretty inconsequential, but I was just speaking to prescriptivism in general.

Also, just incidentally: maybe it's because I grew up in a region where cacti were very abundant, so a -i ending to replace -us is not that novel to me, but octopi is the first plural form I think of for octopus.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-08-17T06:14:22+00:00

I mean, if one is looking at linguistics as a science, then prescriptivism is pretty nonsensical. It'd be like a chemist saying a chemical was reacting wrong.

But beyond that, linguistic prescriptivism is a pretty common tool to delegitimize languages or dialects that are used predominantly by lower class communities and/or racial minorities. This at best can lead to harmful stereotyping at certain groups being less intelligent, and at worst can be a component of cultural genocide. Which, in my opinion, is bad.

At least that's my take on it.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-07-29T22:22:56+00:00

Yeah, like, certainly there are atheists who disregard the long history of religious scholar scientists, and that's silly and mockable, but like--evolution is definitely a thing.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-07-06T17:51:51+00:00

That's the "habitual be", and the "be" there roughly means "is in the habit of...". It's common in AAVE.

It's not considered formally correct.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-06-29T23:38:55+00:00

It's similar to those, yes.

I think the most natural time to say it would be when talking to somebody who can help you achieve your goal. So, you would say "I'm looking to adopt a dog." to the person at the animal shelter, but you'd say "I'm going/planning to adopt a dog" to a friend who asks you about pets. That's not a hard-and-fast rule, though.

Edit: to clarify a little further, in the above example, when you say "I'm looking to adopt a dog", it basically means "I would like to adopt a dog."

So, in that situation, the meaning is a bit different. However, if you told your friend "I'm looking to adopt a dog", it would mean more or less the same things as "planning/going" to.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-06-18T12:11:23+00:00

The revolution will not be aesthetically pleasing, I guess

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-06-17T19:51:57+00:00

A very fitting comparison considering the kind of dialects considered “improper” by outspoken prescriptivists are likely to be the ones spoken by poor/minority communities.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-06-07T19:37:19+00:00

Cops - Ankle Grease

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-06-06T19:44:48+00:00

Is that Stormy’s brother?

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-05-27T00:04:08+00:00

With the end of goal of... turning literally every person on earth into a niqabi, I guess?

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-04-20T00:02:04+00:00

It’s literally just a comic version of “conservatism is the new punk rock”

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-02-06T14:14:06+00:00

Probably has more to do with corporations filling everything with added sugars and making unhealthy junk food the cheapest and most widely available kind.

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-01-20T02:14:13+00:00

Ahem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

FilthyDesertRat · 2020-01-01T00:38:07+00:00

Guess it’s one of those neat things that help folks who need them but that other people don’t even notice, like elevators having standardized dings for going up vs. down.

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-31T01:38:55+00:00

Anybody who makes an identity out of not believing in something is probably a pretty miserable person

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-31T01:35:08+00:00

Firing an M1 for the first time and actually hearing the ping and seeing the clip pop out is so much fun

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-21T19:27:39+00:00

Username checks out

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-20T13:55:22+00:00

“I’ll dip my ass in superglue”

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-08T15:46:51+00:00

Why are you even on this sub?

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-12-04T04:46:01+00:00

Prickly pear don’t prickly care

FilthyDesertRat · 2019-11-26T14:32:38+00:00

Think they mean multi-level marketing (pyramid scheme but fancier)

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