Isn’t written language just an arbitrary agreement?

So is spoken language! And I’d argue that it’s more the case for spoken language than written language.

As someone who taught English and had to try to find patterns, here are my tips…

• If it’s an adjective describing a noun, it’s two words (e.g. a house that’s green is a green house)
• if its one concept without an adjective, it might be a single compound work (e.g, the special building for growing plants is a greenhouse. Green doesn’t describe a colour)
• Compound words usually don’t have any conjugation when a verb is used…if there’s conjugation, then it won’t become one word (which is why we have “living room” and “bathroom”…but a “bathing room” would be two words. But not always)
• If the compound word that’s a verb needs to be broken apart to be conjugated, it’s probably not a compound wor (e.g., if you need to say “He works out” and not “he workouts”, then it should be “I work out” and not “I workout”)

But also English is just dumb. Especially with the dashes. I use those more for sticking together words that aren’t actually compound words. Or when it looks better, like with level-headed. It looks too long without the dash to my English eyes.

Also, “itself” is always itself. It’s the reflexive pronoun (I think) like myself, yourself, etc. It’s one word the same way that “hers” is one word.

Icecream is new to me, but my autocorrect recognizes it.

Hotdog is how I usually spell it. It distinguishes a hotdog from a hot dog (i.e., a dog that’s excessively warm. No, nothing to do with yiff…)

Native English speakers make these mistakes as often as, if not more often than, those learning English! Haha

For historical or proper words, yes. But I don’t think mistakes would be influenced by Latin…right? Lol

Reminds me of the Simpsons’ beer-powered car at the gas/beer station.

“One [pump] for you, one [pump] for me!”

Y’know, a lot of the hate against AI seems to mirror the hate against Wikipedia, search engines, the internet, and even computers in the past.

Do you just blindly believe whatever it tells you?

It’s not absolutely perfect, so it’s useless.

It’s all just garbage information!

This is terrible for jobs, society, and the environment!

Hey, we do it with external HDDs. Mistakes happen.

I hope this works out for you.

Income inequality.

Things are more difficult for lower working class Americans than the equivalent people in some other countries (sometimes, depending on the state/country being compared to, yadda yadda yadda). So while it’s a rich country, there are a lot challenges for those who aren’t rich.

And when you’re seeing your fellow countrymen enjoying all these nice things, you want to have them too. Can’t afford them? Don’t worry! There are lots of ways to lend you money with interest for you to pay back!

Typically because it’d be a job that doesn’t have many skill or education/knowledge requirements compared to higher-paying jobs

I definitely agree! There are a lot of other factors that should come into play. A corporation is more likely to focus on money. A smaller org would have more leeway to use human judgement.

I don’t get the skepticism. If you were deciding between two candidates of equal qualifications, and one asked for $65k, and one asked for $55k, and you chose the $55k one…what would you say to the $65k one?

Garbage like that has no place anywhere.

If app developers can’t get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.

But if it’s a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.

Removable battery too, while we’re at it! Lol

Things are smaller and more intimate (in that I can recognize more usernames).

I’ve blocked more users here than on Reddit though. Mostly just users that are annoying/spamming/give me really weird vibes. Actually, I don’t think I blocked any users when I was on Reddit.

You can tell that Lemmy houses Reddit refugees…and some of them are refugees because they were completely banned on Reddit, and likely deserving, lol

Nasty fire still sounds better than instant explosion! Haha

Stopping the explosions seems like a good enough sort of solution to me