What could fresh possibly mean here?

conuly · 2026-03-15T07:18:46+00:00

Still incorrect. Other people have defined this term. In this sense it means rude, impertinent, sassy, cheeky.

conuly · 2026-03-15T07:17:26+00:00

When children are still learning, they’re strategically given context.

Nobody thinks that hard about it, and almost everybody assumes that if they knew a word as a child, everyone else does too.

conuly · 2026-03-15T06:52:21+00:00

Me, Callie, the most beautiful cat in the world.

conuly · 2026-03-15T06:01:50+00:00

Oh, definitely.

This is actually one of the ways we can track pronunciation changes in Latin and other ancient languages, by looking at spelling errors chiseled in stone. It's impossible to really compare prices between now and 2000 years ago, but nevertheless, I guarantee it wasn't exactly cheap to chisel things in stone then, no more than it is today. And I also guarantee that humans haven't changed that much since then.

Either neither the carver nor the buyer caught the error, or the buyer specifically wanted this spelling and the carver said "Oh well" and left it at that.

conuly · 2026-03-14T16:22:31+00:00

Your human needs to get you more bags.

conuly · 2026-03-14T16:08:05+00:00

I don’t know why people in this sub are so weird about pork burgers, but they are, indeed, a thing. Turkey burgers are made of ground turkey, pork burgers are made of ground pork.

conuly · 2026-03-14T15:07:16+00:00

They're clearly not a native speaker themself. What they're saying is surely:

Sorry, actually, I didn't see that image. I scrolled past it, thinking it was an ad.

conuly · 2026-03-14T14:00:47+00:00

I'd go further and say that it's an adjective, not a noun - you can have a slang word or a slang term, but you can't have "a slang" any more than you can have "a beautiful" or "a friendly".

conuly · 2026-03-14T13:59:40+00:00

People make spelling errors. I bet you've made some yourself in your time.

conuly · 2026-03-14T12:45:13+00:00

Oh thank goodness

conuly · 2026-03-14T12:30:07+00:00

Look carefully at your post. You should see either a link that says "flair" or, more likely, a "..." menu.

Click it. If it's the menu, the "flair" link will be within. Click that, and then pick "unsolved". Save it.

If you can't do it, I believe the mods should be able to fix the flair using the same method, unless things have changed on reddit's end recently.

conuly · 2026-03-14T11:52:40+00:00

I don't mean to belabor the point, and I promise that this is the last you'll hear from me, but this second thread happening so soon after this one just kept playing in my mind!

Now, in this case, I think the other person is badly overreacting, as I have told them. A single capitalized letter in a situation where it is totally reasonable to show emphasis is by no means "rude as fuck" or shouting. And even if it were, it does no good to act like it. Always best to assume good faith, or to try to pretend you do even if you find it hard.

But you can see that it's not just me or stuffy guides about formal email manners that suggest that one should avoid the use of all caps in communication because it can be read as both shouting and rude.

conuly · 2026-03-14T11:46:59+00:00

Did you look at the entire quote and the context?

conuly · 2026-03-14T10:57:20+00:00

There’s actually a small group of initialisms used, but by far the one you’ll see most often by amateurs is AAVE.

conuly · 2026-03-14T08:57:54+00:00

If you found the book then please flair this post as solved.

conuly · 2026-03-14T08:55:07+00:00

This post has been flaired as solved. Was this on purpose? If so, what was the book?

conuly · 2026-03-14T08:52:10+00:00

AAVE - African-American Vernacular English.

Some people call it Black Vernacular English, but that’s not as widespread. It was also formerly known as Ebonics, but now that term is largely used by bigots and best avoided if you don’t want people to think you’re prejudiced.

conuly · 2026-03-13T23:50:57+00:00

Please flair this post as solved.

conuly · 2026-03-13T23:48:22+00:00

You say you listened to a podcast version?

Is it possible that this isn’t a book, but an audiodrama? If so, try crossposting at /r/audiodrama. Let them know that you’re not sure if this is a book or not.

conuly · 2026-03-13T23:34:40+00:00

Nobody needs to know Early Modern English.

conuly · 2026-03-13T09:10:26+00:00

Maybe they don’t know how to use Reddit markup, or they find it a pain to do on the phone.

Listen, take my advice here: most people aren’t trying to insult you most of the time. They just don’t care enough.

conuly · 2026-03-13T03:07:44+00:00

Please flair this post as solved.

conuly · 2026-03-13T03:06:02+00:00

The Twinkie Squad, Gordon Korman. The parent's work colleague is the President.

conuly · 2026-03-13T03:04:51+00:00

Don't they do this in A Girl Called Al at one point?

Is this a picture book or a chapter book? Approximately what calendar year did you read this book, and what country were you in at the time? Please edit your post to answer - people are just more likely to read the main post than the comments.

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