OOPs initial instinct was correct. You’re supposed to answer truthfully based on your actual observed experiences, not answer questions about others’ assessments your behavior with your own internal assessment of that behavior. Overthinking surveys can skew answers inappropriately.
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MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•What game do you personally have the most hours played in?English
2·21 days agoLeague of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it
I would still qualify “space” as a noun here, but that’s if you accept these kinds of constructions as sequences of nouns rather than the zero-conversion of nouns into and adjectives.
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Conforms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat.
4·1 month agoI guess fashions come and go, but I never understood the appeal of that bright/flat, chalk/paper white color on nails.
It’s the localized update of a localized update of a localized update of a localized update to a social construct.
Afaik, English grammar requires utterances with predicates to have a stressed element in those predicates. Contractions of only a subject and an auxiliary verb - ex: I am > I’m, he has > he’s, they will > they’ll - eliminate that independent auxiliary as a prosodic segment and violate that grammar.
A - “Who’s going to the store?”
B - “I am.” [ok] or “I’m going.” [ok] (or “I am going.”), but not “I’m.” [bad, obvs].
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.
1·5 months agoThat makes sense. I should have been more emphatic that if/when the subjunctive shows up in speech, it should exist for largely the same purposes it serves in other languages… granted, even in that case, it’s less complex than in other languages.
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.
4·6 months agoThere’s at least the wiki article on the English subjunctive.
Personal disclaimer: To me (though I’m not a perfect reporter), (American) English feels like it barely has a subjunctive mood in practice anymore. If you’re familiar with the pragmatic application of the subjunctive in your own language or others, that may help, but YMMV for how often and how consistently you’ll hear it used in everyday English speech (at least in the US).
Not as weird as high being spelled with just an <i> but height being spelled with <ei>.
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save HimEnglish
1·6 months agoI wonder how random chance works on that snap though: Is it 50% of every sentient population or just 50% of sentient life? What if humanity were wholly spared by the snap just based on statistical chance?
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Data is Beautiful@mander.xyz•Sometimes the beauty is in the data.English
3·6 months ago“Homosexuality can never… be justified.” is an odd choice, but I’m sure that’s what nets some positive responses in various cultures. I wonder how the reverse question would poll - “Homosexuality requires justification.”.
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•So I'm out here like "Kamala Harris y'all" and then she goes ahead and posts some shit like thisEnglish
45·7 months agoCould be lip service; like a superficial gesture to retain some basic standing in the political sphere. Idk why this should be a big deal to anyone.
MaybeNaught@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About ResultsEnglish
2·7 months agoGood lord, he doesn’t know how to be discreet about anything. Every topic is a chance for him to try to show off. No one likes a braggart, and no one takes a transparent braggart seriously.
Wait a sec, wasn’t the majority of that land in the western states claimed by New Spain and then Mexico? How is the maker of this map qualifying “land of native nations”?





“How long are your guts?” is pretty raunchy if you’re using the back door. Doubting your physical compatibility is a level of brag that inspires fantasy smut.