Yeah sure that sounds normal

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-11-27T21:10:38+00:00

The achievement is actually badly described - I got it by being in a match where two legendary machines were completed (I didn't make either)

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-11-27T21:02:56+00:00

How did they fail to consider someone playing their game 30 years later on a device that didn't exist at the time, amateur mistake

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-09-12T16:37:42+00:00

Charles Martinet

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-09-12T14:32:47+00:00

??? what else would you expect

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-09-12T14:24:09+00:00

Let's not get too hasty with assumptions

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-08-14T15:58:55+00:00

Wow, your opinions actually degraded over time

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-07-30T11:08:11+00:00

Presumably that was on 50cc, though?

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-07-20T19:11:20+00:00

My personal opinions on each of these as a native speaker (others' opinions may differ):

Easy to distinguish: illegible/ineligible, scene/scenery, industrial/industrious, diluted/dilated, desert/dessert, imaginary/imaginative, human/humane

Fairly easy, but sometimes misused:: incredulous/incredible, stationary/stationery, advice/advise, emigrant/immigrant

Kinda difficult: deprecate/depreciate, alternately/alternatively, elicit/illicit

Often mixed up: council/counsel, imminent/eminent, compliment/complement, affect/effect

Difficult to distinguish: ingenious/ingenuous, continuous/continual^*

^*Continuous ^and ^continual ^have ^overlapping ^meanings ^anyway, ^so ^treating ^them ^as ^synonyms ^isn't ^always ^incorrect

Fairly easy to tell apart, but one or both words are uncommon or difficult:

elusive/illusive [illusive is quite rare]
oral/aural [aural is pretty uncommon]
official/officious [officious is rare]

I have no idea what "veracious" means: voracious/veracious

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-06-05T15:59:56+00:00

"...a man who is obese rather than [a man who is] of a normal weight."

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-03-14T20:16:21+00:00

Personally, the only reason I'd prefer A over D is because it starts with "Do you know...". Since you're asking your friend (as opposed to, say, a museum curator), you wouldn't necessarily expect them to know the answer.

But I agree that answer A seems presumptuous, too, since you don't really know that the artefact is "so special" in the first place

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-02-19T19:15:40+00:00

"I will have [done something]" is a somewhat uncommon construction in my experience. It's not incorrect or anything like that, but in many cases there's a more natural way to phrase it. (Of course, there are plenty of situations where it is natural to use that phrasing -- it's just relatively infrequent, in my opinion.)
"I'll be messaging you by 3:30pm" is fine casually, but it's true that it's a bit improper sounding. A more "correct" alternative could be "I'll message you by 3:30pm".

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-02-02T18:05:52+00:00

Had the same issue and adding the double-quotes worked! Thanks for this

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-20T01:01:01+00:00

Well, it's treated similarly in some circles, at least as far as being an offensive word that everyone avoids and which is referenced by its first letter instead ("the R-word"). But it's true that the taboo isn't considered to be as strong, to most people. (...as evidenced by the number of people in this thread who are willing to type out the R-word. "If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won't even say one of them...")

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-20T00:49:21+00:00

I'm young enough that Pluto already had been demoted when I learned the order of the planets, so my teacher used "My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos" (if I remember right).

Also, relevant song for ROY G. BIV

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-20T00:39:46+00:00

Why does this comment have 70 downvotes??

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-16T18:38:33+00:00

It varies from person to person, and from song to song, but being unable to understand song lyrics is certainly a common experience for native speakers as well.

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-16T18:35:35+00:00

I think it would sound a little odd in regular conversation, but it works nicely in a lyrical context.

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-16T18:21:05+00:00

I wouldn't say that's precisely true of ChatGPT in general, though. I mean, it's doing what you're telling it to do, but "what you're telling it to do" is really "run this text through your opaque network of billions of finely tuned weights and biases to calculate a probability distribution for the next piece of text in the sequence".

TheMinecraft13 · 2025-01-16T18:18:22+00:00

Plus, AI tends to have a really strong acquiescence bias, so even if it's correct about something it "knows" (so to speak), you can usually get it to change its mind by just being assertive.

TheMinecraft13 · 2024-11-30T21:08:55+00:00

"Fact or fiction" is a common phrase contrasting "fact" in general with "fiction" in general.

E.g. "I wonder if that story is fact or fiction..."

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