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I find your point of disregarding American vs British pronunciation whilst regarding American vs British spelling a bit strange

Do colour Vs color/ catalogue Vs catalog etc… sound different phonetically to you also?

To be fair, those different spellings denote different variants of the language, and these words are pronounced differently in British and American English. So yeah, perceiving those as if those sound different is a normal thing, I guess

Edit: ironically, miaow and meow make an identical sound, according to Cambridge Dictionary: ˌmiːˈaʊ

I don’t know the local specific, but what I was talking about is more like the bus that comes at least every 15 minutes, and those do get quite a lot of ridership in my experience

How is it that 68 cyclists are 5 cars?

I think that is public transport is using that road, the bus will still transport more people/day, but I’m a bit uncertain if much of public transport is available in this case, or pretty much anywhere in the US

Wow, that’s a good one, I should remember to try next time I drive

But yeah, I ride a bicycle, so what do I know about safety anyway. So touching when people remove bike lanes to improve traffic, because they care <3

Parn? Pern? Purn?

I guess we’ll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If we’re vulgar materialists, then it follows that there is no free will, and thus no reason to advocate for societal change.

No free will doesn’t imply no change. Lifeless systems evolve over time, take rock formation as an example, it was all cosmic dust at some point. So no, even if we do accept that there is no free will that shouldn’t mean perfect stasis

because I’m not interested in arguing

This sounds more toxic to me, tbf

I’m afraid it’s DLC only content, and requires a lot of macro-transactions

Well then they will have to slightly extend the term (until death do them part)

Thanks for the links, yeah, I think I thought about distinction of a lesser extent between the colloquial and official variants, at least in the West

Oh, I didn’t know that, neat. Then there’s no space for nit-picking

Yes, but it still is about language, not game engine.

Albeit technically, the statement is correct, since it is more specific.

Schools do teach, and once students are out of elementary school they never write a letter of cursive again. So in effect, it could’ve been not taught at all.

It feels like having a “book dialect” that is only used on TV and not quite spoken by actual people is not too uncommon. At least in Japan it is such, afaik. But to some extent in China, and I think that the UK also has newscasts in more ‘standard’ English than actual English.

This looks like some kind of doom:

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Not only them, and I’m not here to blame 😅

There’s no such thing as “zeroith” because it’s called “zeroth — being numbered zero in a series”

This works for building storeys, this would work equally well for tables. The only reason this is not used often is because the series are rarely zero-based in anything that doesn’t also want to equate index and offset.

You’re right that first may be read as “opposite of last”, that would add to the confusion, but that’s just natural language not being precise enough.

Edit: spelling

Edit2: also, if you extend that logic, when you’re presented with an ordinal number, you would need to first check all the options, sort them, and then apply the position you’re asked, that’s not really how people would expect ordinal number to be treated, not me, at the very least

Ach, well, a known method to create a nice discussion