The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.
The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.
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Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.
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Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.
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It's a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one's knowledge and information.
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I propose a slight edit:
The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't even begin to put into words.
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Or with accent... I can't even buggin to put into words
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Ask your ant, or your ankle
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I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.
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This was brilliant! Loved it.
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I didnt want to upvote you. I really didnt. But my parents raised me better. I am upvoting because its good optics in the neighorhood.
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relevant XKCD
There will come the day where humankind abandons traditional language and embraces comunicating only via relevant XKCD comics
The students, this years records destroyed
You know Randall is going to make that meta comic
How is there so many relevant xkcds