Moogie leans down and says “My sentiments exactly.”

Is a doctor with a revoked license a doctor?

A high-school student who took the preliminary SAT used for college admittance in the US confessed to the Wall Street Journal that “audible gasps broke out in the room” when students learned they would have to write a one-sentence statement that all the work is the student’s own, in cursive, or joined-up handwriting. “Cursive? Most students my age have only encountered this foreign language in letters from Grandma.”

I took the SAT a few times, and writing the pledge wasn’t difficult, just a bit time consuming to write in a manner you’re unaccustomed to. The first time it took awhile to write out because I hadn’t written in cursive for over 10 years at that point it was initially a pain. After that I realized you couldn’t be penalized no matter how bad the writing was and scrawled some illegible chicken scratches in 3 seconds. The sentence you need to copy is something like “I pledge that I have neither given nor received help during the process of taking this exam and that all my answers are my own blah blah”.

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
Called the blood of the exploited working class
But they’ve overcome their shyness
Now they’re callin’ me Your Highness
And a world screams “Kiss me, son of god.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqOSPm2UdRs

That might annoy President Husk.

much like his continued existence

Ah, that worked, or at least it worked through lemmy.zip but not old.lemmy.zip for some reason. I did need the entire URL as you said-- dropping the https:// turned up results with this thread and another one where the URL is linked, but not the original URL itself.

Also as a side note, is there a way to link specific posts with the ! markdown so they open for everyone in their home instance? I know how to link comms with that formatting, like [email protected], but not how to do it for specific posts.

For example, someone posted this link (https://sh.itjust.works/post/31943808 ), and it was recent enough that I went to the comm homepage and changed it to .zip from there, but when I opened the thread through .zip it had a different post number (https://lemmy.zip/post/31038821 ) (actually I usually use old.lemmy.zip but it’s the same post number either way).

If it’d been an older thread I couldn’t find on the homepage, I’m not sure how to go about accessing it through .zip. Any ideas?

Jailing the orange diaper would’ve had nothing to do with betraying democracy. He committed crimes that he should’ve been punished for under democratically created laws. The laws simply weren’t enforced.

Right at the end of that gif it looked like after he dropped the ball Michael was searching for some other balls to juggle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moschen

I think FLOTUS gives him too much agency. Kimmel used to call pence the vice poodle, and that’s about right for the orange one as well. Just like a dog he obeys whatever commands get put into his head. Sometimes you have to give him an expensive treat first, but if you can get one of the stuffed suits on fox to say it you get it for free.

President Husk and the first poodle

I hear the algo’s a big problem with loops and mastodon (?) also, but I don’t really do the tiktok or twitter style SMS so I’m not very familiar. With all the shit going on with the oligarchs and right wing world governments these days, it’ll be interesting to see if the fediverse can sustain itself.

Algorithm stuff aside, I’m not sure this thread is a good indication of how much can be contributed to linguistics or grammar comms. Plenty of people are in here airing pet peeves, but that’s never a good indication of actual interest in language-- like how r/grammar doesn’t allow pet peeve threads or simple prescriptivism without also providing a discussion of the grammar mechanics. Low effort stuff used to get removed with a recommendation to try subs like r/grammarnazi, but that community (now it’s private so I can’t check details, but I remember it being kind of dead) never had much content specifically because people who just want to make pet peeve threads don’t have any interest in actual discussion.

There already are a couple comms that don’t get much traffic, so maybe if the algo were better we’d see an uptick of the linguistic minded lemmings over there, but it’s a pretty niche interest so I’m not holding out much hope. Looks like the most “active” with a couple posts a month is [email protected] (anything more grammar focused looks dead).

I subscribe to the view that people mispronouncing things have read more stuff rather than heard things, so of course I’m not looking down on them for that. I didn’t realize until recently that quinoa wasn’t kwin-OH-ah for awhile, or even in my youthful fondness for Greek myths that the goddess wasn’t called ah-fro-DAIT.

The real question is how old were you when you realized there was no N in restaurateur. My decades were at least several.

The quiet (silent) part isn’t normally said. That’s why the meaning is “you’re saying all the parts out loud together, even the parts that are supposed to be silent/quiet”. There was no indication that the “quiet part” was a verbal expression before the “out loud” modifier.

wicked fuckin pissah

Oh shit, didn’t know Pete Hegseth had joined the Norks

You definitely can

https://web.archive.org/web/20090416054321/https://www.chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm