I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a thing in many languages.

Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.

I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.

So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)

You’re gonna love this. We (Australia) give a bunch of gas away (no royalties), barely tax the companies on their profits, and then most of it gets shipped overseas so it’s expensive here.

We’re a third-world country in disguise.

(Gas is dumb and should stay in the ground, but it’s even more stupid for us not to get any revenue from it)

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exports-56-given-to-corporations-royalty-free/

Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩

How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).

To me any religion that excludes people or exalts people on the basis of tribe is not tolerant end of story.

I haven’t read the entirety of the Bible. But happy to be persuaded that my understanding of God and his chosen people is inaccurate.

For example, this was incredibly easy to search for: Destruction of the Canaanites

I would wager there are many such stories. Judaism, like most religions, is pretty fucked up.

If anyone really believes God chose their people over others, you inherently believe your tribe is more special, more righteous, or favoured by God. To me, that belief is nothing short of dangerous - *gestures broadly throughout human history*

I’m not really out of line here to assert that makes the orthodox belief foster ethnic/tribal supremacy.

I’m not saying everyone who believes in Judaism believes this way, but as a whole it’s pretty hard to argue their shit doesn’t smell as bad as the others.

Exclusion is just not a sign of tolerance. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯

People are individuals, and I’d assert there’s a spectrum of views across believers.

If we’re talking about the religion in general? I’ll have to strongly disagree that it’s only inward looking.

Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?

RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).

Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.

Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY in our company for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…

MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks

I wouldn’t call English simple haha

To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying

I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also

Yeah, the religion with the “chosen people” . Yep. Definitely tolerant of non-believers.

God’s wrath? This only is directed at believers right?

Lol

Jews are welcome to believe in whatever they like provided they’re not hurting anyone, but let’s not pretend their religion as written, or hell even widely practiced, is somehow more tolerant compared to other religions.

Just my two cents, not having a go at you:

This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.

Stupid english with its stupid verbs.

We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.

Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?

I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!

I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha

Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn’t disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)

Why would you run it at night? They’re not as loud as petrol mowers, but spinning blades are not exactly quiet when mowing

Here’s my random two cents about disability euphemisms.

I personally think “special”, which was pretty popular like 10 years ago, was/is pretty demeaning. Even the more recent “differently-abled” feels weird.

I think the plain language of “disability”, which seems to have been around quite a while now, is fine. It’s what is says on the tin, without judgement.