ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @ Nemo @slrpnk.net

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Like most things by Philip K. Dick, the man who has more movies based on his writing than any other author?

It's not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.

It's just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their "57" brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.

The feet ones or the butt ones?

a living language

Yes

do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun?

I never have occasion to say either.

How do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?

Wursht-uh-shur

How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?

Love 'em. My current favorite is "shakshuka".

are onomatopoeias even words to you?

yeah, by definition

insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer

Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.

can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57

They're not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.

convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling

I'm not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I'll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as "catsup" and the pastry as "doughnut" and the cultured dairy as "yoghurt".

That's not an opinion, you're just wrong on the facts. And that's okay! The first step of learning is discovering your own ignorance.

too many cop emojis, that's what's wrong with it

• spelling "catsup" as "ketchup" is as juvenile as spelling "night light" as "nite lite"
• Ohio isn't part of the Midwest
• all of Rory's boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst
• using a slur "because it's not a bad word in my culture" still isn't okay

Not as long as there are videogame wikis.

We do have comment and post karma. It's better with just those and not a running total.

zero or more

"we" and other first-person-plurals

split all vowels into the two-four sounds they actually make

I compliment my wife on her personality traits multiple times a day. But not just my wife, everyone in my life. Friends, coworkers, children, pets.

aay ebe eke ede eay efe ege ehe iay eje eek ele eme ene oay epe eque ere ese ete uay eve ewe ekse yay eze

but if we're making changes, we should really get rid of C, Y, X, and W; bring back thorn; turn all soft Gs into Js... the list goes on

Not for me. The written word is much more vivid and conveys information much more efficiently than video. Other people process things differently, I know, but that's how it is for me.

Ten right away, and then another as often as there's a 10% turnover in world population.

Hey, you never said they had to be my fingers.

This may shock you, but there's a lot of us. It's not the same people doing both.

You cannot change the game, you cannot change others. The only one you can change is yourself, and thus the only time blame can be profitable is when pointed inward. Just remember: sometimes the mistake is in playing the game at all.

I'm a compatiblist. I don't think a deterministic universe precludes free will. Of course there are reasons for everything we do. If free will was only the freedom to make bad or random decisions, what's the point? That's a lot of free but not a lot will.

look it's not like there's a titanium standard dude lodged somewhere in a vault in France, but I reckon we all know the difference between a short dude, a long dude, and a metric regular dude