otp

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The water on the other water makes the other water wet, and vice versa

Coming at it from a colloquial definition and not a chemist's definition, though. And I prefer the colloquial definition of "wet".

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

"But I haven't seen you in over a decade!"

I said, SAME. OLD!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't be bothered cooking after walking from school x3

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Unfortunately, I use some software that's Windows-only, and can't be bothered to set up a VM or anything

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why do you multiply the last word of your comments by three?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Same here. My accounts still exist, but I only ever access it now through old.reddit signed out. I still read info from a few communities, but never comment.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, as a Canadian, I kindly ask that y'all get your act together and figure it out! Haha

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Probably American citizens

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

$100 could be a week of grocery money too. $50 for a frugal individual, even.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I imagine it's easier to catch uploaders than viewers.

It's also probably more impactful to go for the big "power producers" simultaneously and quickly before word gets out and people start locking things down.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Canadian here: What's the difference? /s

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

It's a bit misleading to say they're "random". These are all children whose parents told T-Mobile to track for them. They're seeing kids that aren't theirs.

The issue isn't that they're random kids from the population or random T-Mobile customers, but that they're kids that T-Mobile received consent to track and that information is being shared to the wrong people.

Obviously this is bad, but my point is that the data comes from somewhere. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but people need to be careful with what data they share with anyone or any organization.

 

One of the tricky things with English is that we often have words that can be combined to form different words.

Like greenhouse. It's a combination of green + house. But a greenhouse is something very different from a green house. Autocorrect may cause some people to make this mistake, but generally, the concepts are understood to be different.

On the other side of things, there's things like "alot" which is mistakenly used so commonly that my autocorrect didn't even care that I typed that (and it's not just because of the quotes!).

Then there are words like login, which as a noun is definitely one word, but as a verb, should almost definitely be two words ("log in to this website", but "this is my login for the website")...but "login" seems to be universally recognized as standard for a verb, even though we don't say loginned for the past tense (we still say "logged in").

And of course, there are other words that are commonly paired together that we don't often see with the space removed, like "Takecare", "Noway", or "Ofcourse". These could all be potential candidates for the "alot" treatment. What makes "alot" special?

So what causes "Please login to the website" to be "correct", but "I workout everyday" to be incorrect? (And maybe everyone is "wrong" about login, or everyone is right about "workout" and "everyday", and the compound word is an acceptable alternative to the versions with the space)

I feel like this would be better in an AskLinguists community here... maybe there's an active one that someone could point me to? But I'm still curious to see what people think

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