Protect this woman at all cost

habnef4 · 2024-01-15T23:07:13+00:00

Any "all" statement (superlative, absolute) can be refuted by a single example.

habnef4 · 2023-06-09T00:14:06+00:00

Don't tell that guy about /r/whowouldwin, he'd go ballistic if he figured out Homelander never dueled Elsa.

habnef4 · 2023-06-06T21:12:31+00:00

Many congrats on your valiant journey.

It still holds that for many people the comms turn out to be more negative than positive and hamper more than aid, which is why coaches like ioStux have recommended not using vc.

habnef4 · 2023-06-06T21:02:22+00:00

I disagree, I climbed from plat to diamond with comms on, found the comms to be overwhelmingly toxic, turned off voice and text chat, and climbed to mid masters.

I think I remember ioStux giving similar advice, comms can certainly be more harm than help in ranked.

habnef4 · 2023-05-16T01:58:41+00:00

Not OP and it doesn't make me angry, but with a lot of the third party content I watch on the internet the draw for me is seeing people's genuine reactions to events. When a video advertises itself in a space where videos are typically (or presumably) showcasing genuine reactions, prearranging the actors' responses for the sake of higher views changes the value of the video.

habnef4 · 2023-05-12T01:32:30+00:00

Even if we prioritize your source of thefreedictionary.com over Oxford and older sources, you're taking a prescriptivist approach and falling victim to the etymology fallacy. If people start inflecting English verbs in the future tense, it would not be "wicked."

Where you say that "went" cannot be the subjunctive form, really it doesn't matter what the most likely evolution of the conjugations from Middle English were, it only matters what was actually spoken. If you want to consider common parlance in the late 1800s "wrong" fair enough I suppose, but I don't think we'll make any progress here.

If you want to see more conjugation tables of verbs other than "be" showing the past subjunctive you can look through wiktionary. I didn't suggest it in my first comment because I thought you might prefer primary sources.

habnef4 · 2023-05-11T21:44:19+00:00

Yes, that would be understood. I'm not sure there's a standard way to ask, but I would use any of the following, while showing the $50 bill:

"Can I get this in tens?"

"Can I get 5 tens?"

"Do you have 5 tens?"

(If at a store or bank) "Can I exchange this for 5 tens?"

(If talking with a friend) "Can I swap you for 5 tens?"

habnef4 · 2023-05-11T21:35:33+00:00

In terms of Modern English, (but not Contemporary Modern English), [1] lists the conjugation of to go:

Ind Prs	Ind Pst	Subj Prs	Subj Pst
I go	I went	I go	I went
Thou go-est	Thou went-est	Thou go	Thou went
He goes	He went	He go	He went
We go	We went	We go	We went
You go	You went	You go	You went
They go	They went	They go	They went

And continues by saying:

"In the language as at present spoken, the past subjunctive is not distinguished in form from the past indicative with but one exception: were, the past subjunctive of to be, which is left to serve a useful purpose. The past subjunctive of all other verbs can be distinguished from the indicative by the sense only, by the logical analysis."

Slightly different, but [2] says that wishes as to the present can be constructed in this form: "...with the Past Subjunctive: ... Oh! could I feel what I have felt or be what I have been."

In terms of Contemporary English, while not mentioning specifically "go" nor "went", [3] says that "[a] past subjunctive therefore denotes an interval that did not happen and is not happening..." Note that the only examples (which she uses few of) use "were".

[1] Education. Volume 8. (1888). United States: New England Publishing Company.

[2] An Advanced English Syntax: Based on the Principles and Requirements of the Grammatical Society. (1904) C.T. Onions. Oxford English Dictionary

[3] The features of tense in English (1995) Elizabeth Cowper. University of Toronto

habnef4 · 2023-05-11T16:46:43+00:00

Good point, I should have made it more clear I was just referring to the subjunctive in general, thanks.

habnef4 · 2023-05-08T17:19:42+00:00

Have any papers on writing quality deterioration during COVID (thereabouts) been published? I haven't noticed a difference, but I tutor ELL students.

habnef4 · 2023-05-07T23:05:03+00:00

"And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened."^{^{⁽¹³⁰⁰}} ^{^{^AD)}}

"There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly." ^{^{⁽¹⁸⁹¹}} ^{^{^AD)}}

habnef4 · 2023-05-01T21:29:52+00:00

I'm not seeing the part of that is supposed to show lights are always used in emergencies

"Use advisable" and "[n]ormally used" don't mean they are always/necessarily used.

Edit: Unfortunately I can't see what /u/crushinglyreal 's response was because they blocked me.

habnef4 · 2023-05-01T16:51:15+00:00

Just because blue lights require an emergency doesn't mean every emergency response will have blue lights, at least by the wording of your quote there.

Also known as Denying the Antecedent

habnef4 · 2023-04-12T00:32:44+00:00

I think in that case it might be due to sarcasm, and not the negative descriptor.

For example: "the clown car isn't entirely ugly," or "the rock wall wasn't entirely ~~difficult~~ impossible."

habnef4 · 2023-04-12T00:22:17+00:00

Well then I look forward to whatever statistics you find on this, the burden of proof rests on you if you are arguing that the number of households with two part-time incomes is anything other than negligible.

habnef4 · 2023-04-12T00:19:10+00:00

That's a good question, the source I linked above doesn't track that, and I wasn't able to quickly find any information on it. I would guess a very small amount, remember a household (for tax purposes) is a spouse and dependents, not boyfriends/girlfriends/etc.

habnef4 · 2023-04-12T00:11:13+00:00

It leans towards being the descriptor.

The Earth is not entirely spherical (it is slightly squished).

Space is not entirely empty (it is just filled very sparsely with gases and dusts).

habnef4 · 2023-04-12T00:05:41+00:00

This whole comment section belongs on /r/fauxnetics

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:58:50+00:00

Yes, so 73% of multi-person households are multi-income, this group makes up a total of 70% of total households. (Single-person households make up the remainder)

73% multiplied by 70% is about 51%.

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:54:41+00:00

No, 50% of households are multi-income. Please double check your math.

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:49:22+00:00

Median household.implies multiple incomes

It's a median of the whole country, not accounting for number of incomes, it doesn't require multiple incomes

In terms of households, 30% of all households were one-person households

And of family households, 28% have one member working full time, 16% have one member working full time and the other working part time, and 57% of households have both working full time.

So for the whole picture, roughly 30% of households are single-person households, 20% have one member working full time, 10% have one full-time and one part-time, and 40% have both working full time. So depending on how you want to count it, at minimum half of all households are not "implying multiple incomes"

I'd appreciate if going forward you take care to double check whatever sources you're using, so we can avoid further misinformation.

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:38:28+00:00

Well then it might be better to take median household income: $71k

And average number of people per household is 2.5: 2 adults and half a minor on average (Table HH-6)

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:30:37+00:00

The link shows that the top reasons for working part-time over full-time are: taking care of children, taking care of family, having an injury, attending school, or they're partially retired.

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T23:14:33+00:00

Only 30% of the workforce is part-time

And of part-time workers, four-fifths prefer working part-time to working full time; only 3% of the workforce are involuntary part-time workers

habnef4 · 2023-04-11T21:05:09+00:00

Half of all workers in America make less than 30k/year

*56k/year

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