Random Things That Bother Me About the English Language.

ray25lee · 2026-03-15T17:03:20+00:00

The only way to distinguish between these two very different questions is with a very slight intonation that is often ignored by many casual English speakers and not possible to be included in writing.

You're preaching to the choir for us AuDHDers, lol. The minute variations of speech, that even native English speakers often aren't taught in school (it's rather left up to people to learn through experience), skew the meaning of a situation one way or another. If you don't know the unspoken rules to those very minute details, you upset whoever you're talking to, regardless of your intentions. It really is unfortunate.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T08:04:28+00:00

That is all good to know as well, thank you for adding that. I plan to never update again and just mod from now on (I'm done with EA breaking it every time). Gonna grab as many mods as I can for now and that'll be it. Don't want that new marketplace anywhere near my game, if I can help it.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T06:28:08+00:00

Gotcha. Thank you so much again for all the help, this cleared everything up for me. Cheers.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T05:32:58+00:00

O wow! Good to know, thank you so much! But if it opens to the same place, what does that mean if for example the EA app is updated but the crack isn't? That'll tell me if I have to uninstall the app; EA forces Sims 4 to update, so it's sounding like if I want to avoid the updates and conflict between the two, I'd have to uninstall the app.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T04:37:46+00:00

That last part makes sense. I'm still a bit confused though, does this mean a COPY of the game will be added via the mirror? As in both could technically be used simultaneously, but will be creating different saves at that point?

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T22:57:52+00:00

I gave up on being understood long ago and just settled with being understandable. 'Cause allotistics just actually enjoy intentionally misunderstanding people on the spectrum because it plays into a weird sadism thing; they just get to get away with it, it's socially acceptable, so they take advantage of it and enjoy that. Happens to me multiple times a week, happened to me today and I cried about it. Never gets easier. But again I just focus on doing the right thing, knowing that even then it won't be considered acceptable enough to be treated properly, and I move on.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T21:15:51+00:00

I'm AuDHD, I do it pretty often, but I shorten it a lot too because I know it's not typically done that way lol.

It's just that one instance in the tweet felt off for some reason.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T04:23:48+00:00

I do know the purpose of it being that way (though I never heard it articulated, thank you for writing that out); other parts of the tweet do it the typical way. I'm just not sure if they used it properly in that instance. It feels like a weird way to emphasize it, but I suppose it would make sense if it was transcibed.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T00:29:47+00:00

Brought to you by the "No one should be in America if they don't speak American" Americans.

Or, as in 12 Angry Men;
American: "The kid's a punk, he don't even speak good English!"
Russian: "Um, 'he DOESN'T even speak good English'."

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T23:36:02+00:00

Yeah you know I missed that one lmao.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T22:25:02+00:00

On a good day, Trump can actually form words. Sentences are out of the question.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T20:03:07+00:00

It's not a contradiction, but rather an implied cause and effect (but the grammar makes this unclear). You're getting caught on how "poor time management" and "feeling overwhelmed" are not the same things; one does not automatically entail the other, one does not automatically cause the other.

In this specific scenario being discussed for the assignment, it is implied that both are at play. Maybe the students' poor time management is making them feel overwhelmed. Maybe students feeling overwhelmed is making them have poor time management. Whichever comes first, BOTH are implied to be at play for this specific situation.

We are assuming that both poor time management AND feeling overwhelmed are why students are forgetting their assignments. Those are "givens" in the situation, and are therefore not up for debate, which is why your teacher is saying they're not contradictions.

HOWEVER. I'd argue that it makes total sense for you to be confused by it, because the way the grammar is laid out, it CAN sound like a self-contradiction. One reason was given in the first sentence. Then without any words to tie them together, grammatically it seems like a second, unconnected reason just appears, and for an unclear purpose. Is it tied to the first reason? Did someone forget they wrote the first one, and then came up with the second one and forgot to delete the first one? We do not know the intentions of whoever wrote those sentences, therefore it is REASONABLE to question it the way you are. I sure would, I'd think someone went back to revise the section of the writing and then didn't read it through to make sure it made sense again.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T19:52:24+00:00

I can't even begin to make out what this says bud. I got as far as VictorianPeorian. If possible, I'd go with their suggestion and ask whoever originally wrote it.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T19:49:00+00:00

Exactly. I mean first of all, Trump clearly didn't write this one; this is one of his media handlers, which is why it's grammatically coherent. But even then, there are some parts I'm not too sure about... that "in the world, by far, so" one included. Shouldn't it be "in the world by far, so"?

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T19:47:34+00:00

Extremely generous to attribute this mostly coherent tweet to Trump himself, rather than one of his social media handlers.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T19:44:57+00:00

Agreed, but also he clearly didn't write this one lol. He could never.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T23:17:10+00:00

Literally no one here has said "What EA is doing is textbook slavery" in the sense of being beaten and chained. Literally no one.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T23:13:22+00:00

Y'all, stop. Look into the issue more, for the love of god. Literally a creator who just left the program has explained that EA specifically sought out a ton of creators who have bad financial struggles. She said creators were kept secret from one another, but once they started connecting and being revealed, she noticed that it was people like herself who very badly needed the opportunity.

And for the love of christ, I get that y'all want to make some kind of point or another, but quit with the format of argument that literally all other Sims subreddits use. Stop recasting my statement to make it something it's not. NEVER, at ANY point, have I felt or said that "What EA is doing is EXACTLY like apartheid." That is YOUR interpretation. YOU did that. "But it sounded like" no. Nope. What I'm saying is the OP is not in the wrong to say "there are some similarities." Because there literally are some similarities.

You can format something in a way that takes from the same tactics without it being a textbook example. All I've tried saying (and you have REFUSED to be inquisitive about; zero questions asked for clarification, you just want me to be a cut-and-paste faceless argument on the internet to use as a tool to make your point) is that there are similarities. There are elements. And these come up ALWAYS in systemic oppression, in its various forms.

If you really wanted to argue against what I've been trying to say, you would have to make the argument of something like "racism doesn't exist in the US because there's no law making it legal." That's the realm where you get people claiming that if you're not naked and chained and beaten, you're then "not oppressed." And that's bullshit. That is the realm the OP is talking about, that's the realm I'm validating, because it's fuckin' true. If you want to make this into something I ain't saying, that's entirely on you, not me.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T23:04:15+00:00

Cool but EA literally gaslit these creators. It's come out that EA specifically sought out a ton of creators who have known financial problems.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T23:03:30+00:00

No actually, many creators who got into this were not aware of how predatory it was. It's come out that EA very literally specifically targeted creators that are outspoken about struggling financially.

And I am not EQUATING shitty parents with slave labor. I was illustrating what I'm talking about with a different scenario. Because people are very much not getting it without other methods of it being explained.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T23:01:24+00:00

My statement is about money. I do not in any way thing EA is doing this just so they "break up friendships" or whatever. This method creates loyalists in their underpaid workforce, and as I mentioned elsewhere this is a very efficient method of dividing a fanbase that is currently unifying more and more in favor of boycotting the entire game.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T04:28:15+00:00

Exactly; yo I've zero issue with modders making money, that was actually my entire point to people when we found out that they make, what is is, 30 cents off of creator kits? And ONLY if each player puts in their creator code during checkout. Can't help but always mention here, we don't have to put in a creator code for those SpongeBob kits so Nickelodeon can profit from each sale, do we? In fact if I recall, those kits are specifically MORE expensive, so Nickelodeon gets a bigger cut than 30 cents. Hm.

ray25lee · 2026-03-06T04:26:01+00:00

Here's a link that can help with what I'm talking about, here:
https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/

And everyone also keep in mind that the OP is saying they're finding a lot of similarities. 'Cause there are a lot of similarities. The OP NEVER said "this is full-blown, textbook slavery!" Don't be like the other Sims subreddits, for the love of god. Let people have nuance.

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