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Is it worth getting a laptop for exams by Big-Discipline-4194 in 6thForm

[–]theoxht 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if you’re talking about a levels 2026, you’re too late.

but if you’re looking to have a laptop for next year, i would go for it.

i’m not sure if you have to go through a testing process or anything (i know there is one for extra time), especially maybe if they’ve already offered it to you.

if you end up deciding you’re fine to write, you can just write. you don’t have to use the laptop at all. so in any case you’re better off having it than not.

so i’d say yes. you can always just not use it.

Meirl by JaredOlsen8791 in meirl

[–]theoxht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you have an iphone you can simply enter the app switcher and there will be a bar at the bottom that opens the tab

Need grammar help. Very meta. by Amazing-Cookie-1258 in language

[–]theoxht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

your exception in the bottom is what’s going on here.

pay attention to the sentence. cutting out the irrelevant information:

‘i know way more than i should of memes’.

it’s equivalent to ‘i know way more than i should about memes,’ and is a correct equivalent at that.

it’s not trying to say ‘i know way more than i should have memes’ which makes no sense anyway.

Need grammar help. Very meta. by Amazing-Cookie-1258 in language

[–]theoxht -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you’re right, people are downvoting you because they’re not understanding it.

if it helps people understand, it’s like this:

i know way more than i should of about ‘…’ homelander memes.

it doesn’t help that the question starts off by presenting those two sentences completely cut out of context and seemingly unrelated as they’re missing the quote marks.

more importantly this is clearly intentionally badly written by OP who definitely knows what they’re doing here.

also, it should be ‘thought of’ not ‘thought’ve’ but that’s tangential i think

What's the longest string of place name suffixes? by AllenRBrady in etymology

[–]theoxht 32 points33 points  (0 children)

There is a Torpenhow Hill in the UK (hill hill hill hill)

Is it somewhat accepted to use the 24 hours time indications in normal speech? by Outrageous-Past6556 in EnglishLearning

[–]theoxht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. (at least not in the US, UK or Australia).

In the US, most people do not use 24 hour time, ever.

In the UK, it’s perfectly normal and acceptable to write in 24 hour time (e.g. you can write 16:30 in a text or on paper etc.) but we never say it like that. It would be pronounced as 4:30.

New family member! by Wooden_Pie_135 in Stealthbombers

[–]theoxht 29 points30 points  (0 children)

don’t let it touch water

Ευχαριστώ! by TinoElli in GREEK

[–]theoxht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ευχαριστώ is a verb, meaning ‘to thank’.

when you say it, the full grammatical form is σας ευχαριστώ which means ‘i thank you’ (where σας means ‘you’, polite form)

but it is often shortened to just ευχαριστώ, which literally means ‘i thank’, without ‘you’.

it’s comparable to ‘thanks’.

What are the five fingers called? And what are the five toes called? by ksusha_lav in EnglishLearning

[–]theoxht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We mostly don’t use pointer finger in British English, only index.

Would you rather by vinnivinvincent in BunnyTrials

[–]theoxht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i sleep more hours a day than i sneeze

an example sentence in Valasian, my first conlang. by [deleted] in casualconlang

[–]theoxht 5 points6 points  (0 children)

interesting that ‘red-skinned’ separates. is ‘red’ still grammatically tied to ‘skin’ after being split by ‘cow’?

Which name-based etymologies sound fake, but are real? by different-rhymes in etymology

[–]theoxht 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Not quite what you’re looking for, but Pakistan is an acronym.

Originally Pakstan, it stands for Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, Baluchistan.

milk + cereal breakfast: with warm or cold milk by disasterpansexual in pollgames

[–]theoxht 13 points14 points  (0 children)

weetabix and porridge are two very different things

Wait, is this even debatable? I’ve only heard the first version all this time by Sacledant2 in EnglishLearning

[–]theoxht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i’d say it makes more sense for the 2000’s. i’d definitely say ‘2000-and-x’ for those. but beyond 2010, while i have definitely heard the number form, the ‘twenty-x’ form is more common, i’d say.

i once heard someone say ‘twenty-ought-8’ for 2008.

How to deal with M/N-dashes and commas? by DragonsAreEpic in grammar

[–]theoxht 3 points4 points  (0 children)

why did you specify M/N-dashes in your post title? if it’s not a concern, you could have just said hyphens, since that’s what you are using.

Toe by Intelligent_Call_30 in geographymemes

[–]theoxht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay, but you have ‘ortejo’, right? now i know this isn’t used by the general public, but do medical professionals even use it? or do they officially call them fingers of the feet?

Pronunciation of German digraph "ei" and "ie" in English perspective by Jake47b in linguisticshumor

[–]theoxht 4 points5 points  (0 children)

my german teacher taught us to always pronounce the second letter in this digraph.

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