

If I could get a slide-out keyboard, like I had on my sidekick, or even a T9, I’d ditch autocorrect in a heartbeat.


If I could get a slide-out keyboard, like I had on my sidekick, or even a T9, I’d ditch autocorrect in a heartbeat.


No, just autocorrect deciding it knows better than me.


Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the worst is these: Vader was right again.
There is at least one tictoc lady I watch religiously, even though she is a MAGA nutter.
I hate to sound like this, but I’m not watching for her thoughts and opinions.


The majority of those problems go away if more people had their basic needs met.


Isn’t the after sex cigarette kind of a trope?


Are there any Russian workplace comedy?


As a pure act, I can’t see that it causes any harm.
However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.


Back when I lived in N. Carolina, there was a local brand called “Dr. Enuff.” Loved that stuff.


On earth? No, not by a long shot. We would need to get into the deconstructing planets business.


Context is as important to language as syntax.
Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.


Yea. Not helpful.


I’m aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.


Right, that’s “speaking figuratively.” There are rules for that.
But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.
I’d hate to find a box in my lab marked “inflammable.”


I love me some Stratigo.


I picked it up from an episode of Deep Space Nine. Good times.


I thought I was wrong, once. But I was mistaken.


Oh, infuriating, certainly.


That’s amazing is it? That they (grudgingly) take care of us while we are doing what they want, and hurt us until we fall in line when we don’t?
Seems a bar has been lowered while I wasn’t looking.
You are either answering the wrong question, or are defining a lie based on some criteria I don’t recognize.
Telling a Nazi there are no Jews in my basement is a lie. The only way it’s not a lie is if there are, in fact, no Jews in my basement. But it is not wrong to lie to a Nazi.