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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Hey, I have the perfect reaction meme for this! It’s somewhere in this folder, I just… need to… find it… It should be near the top, I think, I downloaded it not too long ago. Dang, where is it… So, it’s, it’s really funny, it’s, like, there is this cat and… I think I already went past it. Yeah, these memes are all older, I think. But I didn’t see it anywhere. Hang on, let me check again… yeah, it’s definitely older than this one, but… ah, never mind, but it’s a great meme, trust me!


  • Don’t let your dreams be memes. When we did the blackout thing on reddit last year, I said I’d get a Reggie tattoo if it worked. Sometimes, I’m a little sad it didn’t work out, but I’d probably regret getting a Reggie tattoo. So maybe it’s a good idea to let some dreams be memes. But I’m not your mum, and you can do whatever makes you happy uwu






  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBrulenys
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    Spellcheck is surprisingly influential and can even cause language change. From Gretchen McCulloch’s book Because Internet (p. 67):

    Default computer spellings are powerful enough to have created a shift in British English since the 1990s: while American English prefers a Z in words like “organize” and “realize,” British English has traditionally used both -ise and -ize spellings. But spellchecks have tried to prevent people from spelling the same word differently within the same document by enforcing “organise” and “realise” all the time when set to British English, leading to an upswing in -ise endings among the general British typing public and the perception that -ize is only for Americans.

    Anecdotally, I sometimes use a website called LanguageTool to “proofread” important texts, and it’s good enough to point out simple mistakes that I can no longer see after working on a text for too long. Every once in a while, though, (and especially in languages other than English) it incorrectly marks things as wrong, but it has this weird kind of authority (it’s a spellcheck, after all!) that makes me question myself.








  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHaiku Rule
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