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trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

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Kilian Evang
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I wonder what the "you ask" pattern is, exactly. Pitch rising higher at the end than normal question intonation?
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wayfinder
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yeah, basically.

rhetorical questions in particular fall victim to it a lot of the time.

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Kilian Evang
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Interesting, I'd never noticed the "name in commas" pattern. Using the terminology of Schneider and Zeldes (2021), I would describe it as name descriptors (more specifically: embellishments) treated incorrectly as appositives in orthography.

aclanthology.org/2021.udw-1.14…

Das Kasperlenspiel

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every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:

"Yahooist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie www.yahoo.com"

Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...

when people using the false plural "octopi", do they also do it for other words ending in -us for which -i is not the correct plural form?

i propose to name this field of study "autobi"-ography

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The Birdbassador
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i think the scientists have mostly given up on "octopi" (mostly because "octopodes" is also fake and "octopuses" sounds bad), but there are still folks fighting the good fight against "virii"

why do so many people write "isaac" as "issac"? it's like an epidemic, probably more common as a misspelling than "micheal" at this point. i wonder what the reason behind that is...
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Kilian Evang
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I've observed in myself that typos involving double letters often involve doubling the wrong letter. It seems our brains store the information "double a letter" in some sense separately from the doubled letter.
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Zitrone
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@texttheater yeah, i do that frequently, too. also somtimes terribly wrong (even a firstgrader would spot) but equal sounding vowels. even in handwriting! its soo interesting.
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Kneten auch Sie noch heute ein Dar!

making salsa, one of the few pleasurable jarring experiences

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slightly ticked off again that discord cannot search in threads

please, i beg of you all... no more cat puns with "purr" or "meow"
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wayfinder
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it's really not nice to do the thing in response to a sincere plea to stop
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Rana del Ley, Esq.
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apologies, I honestly thought the "fursona" angle was sufficiently original as opposed to "purrsonally" :f
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(engl.) STI = (dt.) Bumsenbrenner

why do we say incel and not F-Zero

(engl.) shoegaze = (dt.) Bodensee

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don't quixote

by age 46 you should have a sizable collection of grammar pet peeves (about 50% of which are indicators of aging out of language as it is in common use, even if that common use is stupid as fuck)
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whichever you prefer!

you can measure how owned someone is with a their-mom-meter

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i've seen that screenshot from the fox news show about libraries* roll through my feed a few times now, and i keep wondering what they thought the comma was for in "drug-infested, sex dens"


*not reproducing it again because meh

i'm guessing the british government could improve their perceived trustworthiness by a measurable amount if they stopped calling everything they do a "scheme"

it just sounds so sinister and implies ulterior motives!

this eclipse is very confusing, suddenly everyone likes corona

They're doing some lampshading outside my place
two brushes giving the street lamp outside my place a new coat of paint

I recently uploaded two new tracks to my soundcloud, and I've had multiple spammers/scammers reach out to declare their undying love for the tracks and offer their services listing it on all the marketplaces, etc. It really does feel like there's a normalized base level of this sort of thing almost everywhere on the web, like parasites, bacteria and viruses in the environment, just a constant pressure of hopeful little bloodsuckers. Every place needs some sort of immune system against these omnipresent threats (and usually, this is not something the platform does, so in effect they force their users into a defensive posture by default.) It's pretty dire, in my opinion.

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(engl.) Rod Turner = (türk.) Döner Kebap

I made music for a second thing! pouet.net/prod.php?which=96616

Evoke 25 by LJ

demo for Windows, 8th at Revision 2024
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I made music for a thing: mfx.drastic.net/view/asura/

Best enjoyed at 1080p with a nice-ish GPU!


Asura

webgl demo 'Asura'
mfx.drastic.net

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getting over it


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Rip whoever died in this rest stop
a ramen and ice tea display mounted on what looks like a ghost bike

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someone's social media post uses the creative spelling "succeeding at its' intended goal"

saug auch du noch heute fährlich!

serviceperson hat meine verabschiedung interpretiert wie sie dachte. vielleicht vergessen, dass die erfahrung "recht gehabt aber pech gehabt, lol was willst du machen" war
chatverlauf: Ich: na denn: ebenso, und möge ihre nächste serviceerfahrung anderswo genausogut sein wie meine hier! Serviceperson: Vielen Dank. 😊

ich fand es als kind immer sehr verwirrend, dass "der mensch hat gute nerven" (edit: oder auch "nerven wie stahlseile") das gleiche bedeutet hat wie "der hat keine nerven" (bzw "ein mensch ohne nerven"). aber letztere formulierung habe ich nun schon echt lange nicht mehr gesehen

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dit is berlin! kopflose ratte inner pfütze zwischen den tramschienen. foto erspar ich euch

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Fabian Giesen
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ugh

ich glaub' in new york sagen sie "character!"

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Still loving pre-party hype... #demoscene #revisionparty
#demoscene #revisionparty

A pair of pigeons has made its home in the tree in our yard, and when one of them woke me at 6:52 am on a Saturday by screaming (technical term) right in front of my balcony door, I decided to do a little 5 minute craft project. Let's see if the pigeons like it.
on a green crafting mat, a sitting, attentive black cat with bright yellow eyes, made from black paper cut to shape and two circles of yellow paper, with pupils drawn in and some highlights and whiskers quickly drawn in white pencil. the tools used for creating it are also visible along the edges of the image frame - cutter, scissors, tape, pens. it's pretty cute!
what it looks like from the outside of my balcony door, taped to the lower edge from the inside, with a bit of my kitchen in the background, hopefully blurry enough to not catch shit for how i need to tidy up a little
a shot of the silhouette from behind, looking out over the yard, which itself is mostly represented by the yellow house on the other side, but a bit of the tree is visible to the left
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Daniel Gibson
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the birds outside my windows don't even mind the real cat sitting on the windowsill and making silly noises
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wayfinder
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as a little update on this, 2 weeks later, it seems to have worked a treat. the pigeons have, probably out of an abundance of caution and alternatives, decided to find a different balcony for early-morning vocalization, and I have not been disturbed in my sleep since.

Da steckt ja ein Horst im Thorsten?!!!

was hat es eigentlich mit diesem phänomen auf sich, dass deutsche schmunzeltwittergroßaccounts (und jetzt vmtl auch welche auf bluesky) sich mit namen und/oder bild englischsprachiger komiker und sitcomfiguren präsentieren? chevy chase, alf, etc.? das macht soweit ich das weiß anderswo niemand...

if you're calling it an Essential Mix, it better be all A-minor acid tracks

"A.I." folgt nach einem ungünstig getimeten Tippfehler leider den 3 Gesetzen von Asimove

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ich so: ein (1, in zahlen: EIN) deutsches comedy-video von unter 1 minute länge anguck

youtube so: WIR HABEN DA ÜBRIGENS AUCH FASCHISTEN DIE SICH LUSTIG FINDEN GUCK MAL GUCK HIER SIND VIDEOS VON LISA ECKHART UND DIETER NUHR GUCK DOCH MAL WILLSTE KOMM KLICK MAL

ich will das eigentlich nicht, aber es geht mir so endlos auf den keks, wie selbstverständlich fast alle leute "scheinbar" statt "anscheinend" verwenden. ich habe so lange versucht, da still zu sein, aber es frisst mich auf. ich will die anschreien! was mich das schon an kraft gekostet hat, mich da zurück zu halten! ich muss vielleicht mal ne phase einlegen, in der ich mich unbeliebt mache und was dazu sage - einfach aus self care. falls ihr davon betroffen seid, nehmt es mir bitte nicht übel. und sagt einfach IMMER "anscheinend", dann seid ihr auf der sicheren seite.
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Kilian Evang
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Ich meine: »scheinbar« hat laut Duden (duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/sc…) beide Bedeutungen, »anscheinend« nur die schwächere, passt also in den Situationen nicht, in denen man sagen will, dass etwas nur zum Schein so ist, weil man dann ja eine schwächere Aussage trifft, als die, die man eigentlich treffen wollte (wenn auch zugegebenermaßen keine Aussage, die der intendierten widersprechen würde).

Duden | Suchen | scheinbar

Duden

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ja, der kampf ist wohl verloren. das macht es nicht besser, nur häufiger. "scheinbar" hat die schwächere zweitbedeutung nur deswegen im duden eingetragen bekommen, weil es genug leute nicht geschafft haben, die beiden begriffe auseinander zu halten. es ist ein armutszeugnis.

Quentin Tarantino must be beyond livid that someone else is getting to direct "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman"

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Ich tu den Swag in den Einkaufswagen

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