I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a thing in many languages.

Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.

I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.

So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)

How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).

Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?

RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).

Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.

Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY in our company for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…

MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks

I wouldn’t call English simple haha

To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying

I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also

Just my two cents, not having a go at you:

This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.

Stupid english with its stupid verbs.

We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.

Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?

I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!

I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha

Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, its usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.

If it’s funny, it’s funny

Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.

Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?

I agree 13 -19 in English are out of place, and 11-12 are left over from duodecimal, however changing some spoken order is way less cursed that doing fraction multiplication.

I for one, would love if we started saying ten-one, ten-two, etc.

This small part of Danish is definitely fair game to tease. It’s all in good fun!

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Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.

Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it’s within the realm of possibility.

I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work…

“no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”

I think this is a fair dig haha

I feel so left out

This took me a second to process. Is filter coffee “coffee” in north America?

Downvoters mad to find out cars are inherently unsafe and need very good infrastructure and to be remotely safe.

Downvoters mad that E_k= ½mv², and speed, funnily enough, is dangerous.

Downvoters mad that manual transmission isn’t making cars safer.

Car go vroom vroom, but public transport go better

Fax

“He or she” is so clunky and I immediately think they must be 50+ when I see someone writing it.

Fun side fact “the player” is a masculine noun in German, so many boardgames seem sexist because they are mistranslated as “the player… he…”