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Lizardking27 @ Lizardking27 @lemmy.world
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Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.

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  • got drunk, installed a hentai game

    Bruh

    • Sometimes I sit alone in a room, wondering if people know what words actually mean or have we ventured past the idea of strict language and we've finally embraced the fluidity of language...

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  • No, we're not "past the idea of strict language" people are often just too stupid to understand what their words actually mean.

    • A happy Brit

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  • The British never got off them.

    • people should have mascots

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    • Later me will manage

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  • If it's due in 10 minutes it only takes 10 minutes to do.

    • people should have mascots

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  • Imagine thinking Merriam Webster overrules the Oxford dictionary. Also it still doesn't refer to a mask, it refers to a veil. You can't just ignore the word "mesh".

    A fursona is not a mascot. It's weird that you're arguing otherwise.

    • people should have mascots

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  • Oxford: "a person or thing that is supposed to bring good luck or that is used to symbolize a particular event or organization."

    Also has absolutely nothing to do with the word mask. "late 19th century: from French mascotte, from modern Provençal mascotto, feminine diminutive of masco ‘witch’."

    You're welcome.

    • people should have mascots

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  • Yeah that's... not what a mascot is.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • "Ignoring everything else" lmao what other points have you made? I've shut down every part of everything you've said while you completely ignored my comment about how acronyms are not pronounced according to their constituents. You also completely ignored my point about "hook and loop tape" still being the most correct name, and how in any professional setting "velcro" would be insufficiently descriptive.

    "doubling down on that one individual thing and ignoring everything else really goes to show that you literally have no answer" - irony

    "A meme post that you are getting really weirdly upset over" - delicious irony

    And you keep using the word neologism, but I don't think you understand what it means. Brand names are not neologisms. You have given exactly 0 examples of neologisms.

    I'm not trying to make you pronounce gif correctly, you can pronounce it wrong if you want, just don't strut around acting like you're saying it right when you're clearly not.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • Those are just brand names, completely irrelevant to the discussion. If you went around calling "hook and loop tape" "book and poop tape" you'd be wrong. Like you are now.

    And no, the public doesn't get to name it. They can call it whatever they like, but they don't get to decide its correct name. Hook and loop tape is still called hook and loop tape, even if most people say velcro. Between the two names, "hook and loop tape" is the most correct. Velcro is a colloqualism.

    If you were to write it in an essay or scientific paper, you would say "hook and loop tape". If it was actually Velcro branded, you'd say "Velcro branded hook and loop tape".

    You've now twice attempted and failed to pass off a logical fallacy as an actual argument.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • "In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate your intended meaning to your intended audience without unintended ambiguity or distraction."

    This is simply untrue. There's this thing called phonics, and dictionaries.

    However, it is actually pronounced Jif so I agree with that part of your comment.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • The tag line offered by the creator when they created the format was "choosey image users choose gif".

    It's supposed to be pronounced like the peanut butter.

    You're right about one thing, though. We definitely can't stop you from being completely wrong.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • Willful ignorance will not serve you in life.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • Acronyms don't have to be pronounced the way their constituents are pronounced. Unless you're going to walk around saying "Puh-Thyoos" instead of POTUS, your statement is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

    The creator can't be wrong, they created it. They get to name it. Not you.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • Doesnt matter what the creator used it for. We still call them Corn Flakes and Vaseline. Thank you for proving my point.

    • If you say it any other way you're wrong

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  • The creator said its jif. That's the end of the discussion.

    • FRIENDSHIP 🎊

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  • Here comes Amos!

    • This goes double for online classes

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  • If nothing is laid out for me and I just have to read a bunch of textbooks, what exactly am I paying tuition for?

    All of my courses did the bulk of instructing and learning during class or lab time, and it was a fulfilling, educational, and enjoyable experience.

    College is expensive, it's not unreasonable to expect the instructors to be willing to and capable of instructing.

    • This goes double for online classes

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  • Literally the teachers job to explain everything.

    • Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...

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