ich habe gerade erfahren, dass "MTB" die abkürzung für "mountainbike" ist, und frage mich seitdem mal wieder, wofür das T steht (ähnlich wie beim RTW schon mal - da war es eingefügt, weil "RW" schon vergeben war.)
wenn es das t in "mountain" sein soll, dann müsste es doch eigentlich "MtB" geschrieben werden, oder?
Gibt es denn eine allgemein gültige Regel dafür, welche Bestandteile von Abkürzungen großgeschrieben werden und welche klein? Wie würde diese Regel lauten oder anders gefragt, wie kommst du zu der Annahme, dass es dann MtB geschrieben werden müsste?
Keine Ahnung, mein Instinkt sagt eigentlich "nur Anfangsbuchstaben von Wörtern groß" (weswegen ja auch RTW so aufstieß), so wie beim BVerfG ... da wäre das Äquivalent zu MTB dann vielleicht BVFG?
Ja, wobei mir in der Rechtssprache eh andere Regeln als anderswo gängig zu sein scheinen. MtB ginge da m.E. schon deswegen nicht, weil t im unabgekürzten Wort nicht auf das M folgt.
don't like these always-attached bottle caps. when i pour, the cap slides down and the liquid starts to pour into the cap instead of where i am aiming; when i drink, the cap gets me in the chin or in the nose. and as a final fuck you, it takes a lot longer to find the right position to screw it back on than one that you had in your hand in the correct orientation while you were drinking or pouring
but look around you, no stray bottle caps in the gutters, in the park, in the water! only in your face! (never mind it wasn't a problem to begin with. remember those parks littered with bottle caps? yeah, me neither.)
the ones I've used always lock in place if you open them fully to the side. They usually have a locking "lip" thingy, so I never had those issues you mention. But maybe bottles here are different?
interesting! the ones i have encountered sometimes lock into the open position, but not the orientation of the ring. most of them actually tear off on one side the first time they're opened, so the locking doesn't work.
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they are mostly like this, and hold very well both from the cap to the lip but also around the bottle (it does not rotate freely when locked). And these are the cheapest ones from a supermarket white label brand, not some fancy ones 😅
lately, most videos on youtube from creators with more than like a thousand subscribers will have the first couple of comments be from spambots that say something like "your channel is so wholesome! this content is giving live 👏 i am excited to see what you'll talk about next!" and then it has just a full frame of butt as its profile picture.
but you know what, i don't mind! i just think of them as dorothy in one of my favorite pictures of all time:
so this serial ponzi-like thing where people build hype but tank a company, create a new one and hype that to pay off the previous failure's refunds, debts, etc., then tank it, move on to the next, ... does that have a name that actually gets to the predatory nature of the pattern and doesn't glorify it as entrepreneurship?
i suppose the leveraged buyout is kindof the opposite side of the tech startup thing where they build a company fast on loads of debt, hoping to be bought out and liquidated.
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i just had the stupidest idea for impractical footwear, and i'm wondering if anything like that already exists:
the floatshoe
basically, a ring for your calf to sit in, possibly with a sort of funnel or straps to more evenly spread the weight, mounted on struts that connect to a "sole", so that your feet hang in the air freely as you walk
Hm. Problem I see with this is the lack of forward stabilization that feet provide. Plus you introduce an additional pivot point. I would imagine that walking in these devices will prove to be quite difficult. I'm curious - what's the use case?
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.
I think your first counterexample is still wrong, it needs to be an indefinite article, and even then, in the Crowley case, it's stylistically worse than the version without article or commas.
The underlying mechanism is, I think, that the information outside the commas ("Occultist") does not complete the sentence, but the information in the commas does, and is in fact necessary to complete it, so it can't be an appositive, and the commas are wrong.
The version with the definite article makes it sound as if there were just one occultist, or a previously mentioned but unidentified occultist.
The Rasoulof version with the indefinite article is an informationally and grammatically complete sentence, therefore his name is additional information and should be enclosed in commas (the original without the article would be grammatically incomplete without the name, so it's not additional information).
If the order of the information were reversed, the commas would be appropriate: "Mohammed Rasoulof, renowned director," and "Aleister Crowley, occultist,".
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.
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...
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.
@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.
please don't clash on my account! charly, thanks for being protective of me, and anatol, thanks for not doubling down! i hope we can all be fine with this, i am!
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)
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"
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!
it's monday, and I just posted my weekly overview on patreon and ko-fi. time to finally do some #self_promotion again! follow these links please and be part of the avalanche of moneys that will surely happen soon.
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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