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Pedant warning: your last phrase should contain "than", not "then".
Indeed. I literally never use the word "than". Fuck grammar, "than" looks weird.
I never say "than", I say "then", therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.
Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?
Edit: I'm concerned for everyone who upvoted this
I mean, I suppose I respect the commitment to just being unequivocally wrong.
And ignorant...
I'm not really ignorant if I know I am using bad grammar. I know it's wrong I just do it anyways. That makes me stupid, not ignorant
Obstinate sure but not ignorant.
If it was an actual formal writing I would use proper grammar but other then (oh man what do I do here) that I never really use than.
Lol it's not grammar, you've used an entirely different word that just sounds kinda similar. You're essentially saying the actual words used don't matter in these two sentences because they sound similar:
I like to wear t-shirts
Eye lick two where tea-shits
Hilarious when people want to resort to “I WASN’T WRITING FORMALLY” in these situations. Just take the L and acknowledge it was a flub. Much less cringe that way.
Oh I absolutely did take the L
In dead case, I fish you the bessed.
It's not grammar it's an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.
Edit - you know what, I'm leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.
I laterally never use the word "entirely". Fuck grandma, "entirely" looks weird.
I never say "entirely", I say "entitlement", therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.
I think you meant "literally". Laterally is a complacently different word
I think you meant "completely". Complacently is a completely diffident word.
I thank you meant "completely", which is totally different to "complacently"
I think you moan "think", which is totally different to "thank"
I think you meant "mean", hitch is completely different to "moan".
*littoral
Almost perfect.
Fuck grandma, "entirely" looks wired. Wood be chiefs kiss.
Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant "then" instead of "than", and the sentence will make little sense.
The words "I" and "eye" sound similar, but if you write "eye" I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue. End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn't laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.
Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.
We write our language (swiss-german) like this 😂 everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.
And us german-germans think you are very weird and you might as well call your spoken language something other than german, cause no one can understand it anyways. Also why are you so afraid of this: ß?
It's too sharp they don't wanna get cut
🤷🏻♀️this Sign is not on the keyboards in our country
And most people from Austria have no problem understanding us 😉
I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we're never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.
Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write "do" I mean it is not a normal spoken "o" and not exactly a "u" like it is a "u" but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔
I think you might speak English with a thick German accent based on your perceptions of how you’d spell our words
Fair 😆and expectable, since I normally write phonetic in the german way
Yeah I was really confused until I thought about how my Großonkel would say it lol. But yeah, in my accent both those words voice the d at the end
So it woud be „red“ and „led“?
At least in a yank accent
Understood everything you wrote without issue.
English is a Honda civic. Its not pretty but it works even after years of abuse and neglect
I hope this does not affect your usage of effect in the correct context.
As a former copy editor I find the effect of using affect incorrectly eye roll inducing.
But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.
The easy rule of thumb for then/than is that if you are comparing things or qualities or quantities of things, you use than, otherwise, then is used.
I thought there would be a hyphen between “eye” and “roll”, no?
lol, you are correct!
But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.
Unless you are effecting a change :)
If you mean that you are having an effect on said change... oh god maybe that's actually correct?
If you are affecting (a) change, that would mean you are basically causing change.
But if you are effecting change, said change would have to have been previously established or referenced.
I think???
English is a goddamned shit-show sometimes.
Anyway, we should bring back the interrobang, and the thorne, and also I actually love the Oxford comma even though the AP style guide hates it.
It's the other way around! Effecting a change means causing it, whereas affecting a change would be having some effect on an existing change.
I came across effect/affect swapping in university level textbook the other day, couldn't believe it.
This is me with everyday and every day. It's an everyday occurrence that I see everyday used incorrectly!
You literally used the word "than" in your comment just now.
The literal way to read what you wrote is to never ask Flatpak, in order:
- how it can download more
- the total file size
The only reason no one thinks this is what you mean is because of how many people also mess this up.
"Language is fluid and constantly changing"Our education system is in the toilet and I didn't pay attention 😂
But it is fluid and changing. Do you know anyone who would know what Þæs oferéode, ðisses swá mæg or some other sentence from old english means, or someone who thinks that jail is spelt gaol?
Upvoted because you have the sort of can do won’t do attitude that made American English great. Emerald for dictionarian!
Hoink me with your yimyam flutings.
Sir I have downvoted simply to help you reach a record know that in my heart it is an upvote.
I upvoted it because its nice for someone, anyone to be concerned about me.
They reject u even though you spoken truest worders good are.
Nobody who spoke English that read your sentence misunderstood what you said based and than vs then and that English doesn't have to be pretty to get the job done
I had to read your comment at least twice before I could parse it.
So basically what you're both saying is that you are so incredibly selfish, you don't care if someone needs to read your comments multiple times in order to not misunderstand you, as long as it's easier for you and you don't have to bother learning to be understood
Thanks man