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O Really wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:28 pm
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"There are those who will claim that towards in American English is wrong, but it's really a matter of preference.
There are indeed those.

I suppose some might also claim that the very commonly used "I seen" is also a matter of preference.
Does merriam-webster.com say that?

Who are you hanging out with that it's "very commonly used"? :P
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Who are you hanging out with that it's "very commonly used"? :P
In some (many) cases "very commonly used" sneaks into "alternative" and then into "acceptable" and then into "correct" or "preferred." Once it's snuck in it's hard to get rid of. Remember when "ain't" would have had the editors of the Oxford dictionary grasping their pearls?
Now:

informal
contraction

am not; are not; is not.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
has not; have not.
"they ain't got nothing to say"

The effin' dictionary used "they ain't got nothing to say" as an example and called it "informal." I should say so.

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Mon Aug 05, 2024 1:21 pm
In some (many) cases "very commonly used" sneaks into "alternative" and then into "acceptable" and then into "correct" or "preferred." Once it's snuck in it's hard to get rid of. Remember when "ain't" would have had the editors of the Oxford dictionary grasping their pearls?
Now:

informal
contraction

am not; are not; is not.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
has not; have not.
"they ain't got nothing to say"

The effin' dictionary used "they ain't got nothing to say" as an example and called it "informal." I should say so.
I understand word and phrase evolution, but the circles I run in ain't ;) using "I seen", very commonly or at all.


:angry-cussing: Click bait title: A'ja Wilson FURIOUS at Olympics after Caitlin Clark SHOWS UP!

No, CC is not in Paris. The video is entirely about sales and marketing of their relative signature basketballs :roll:
Misleading title...this video is about their signature basketballs, not the olympics
I hate when I click on these darn headlines for nothing
That’s why I won’t subscribe. Click bait.
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:08 pm

I understand word and phrase evolution, but the circles I run in ain't ;) using "I seen", very commonly or at all.


Well, I didn't mean to imply it was my friends/acquaintances saying that. It's usually somebody on TV getting interviewed about something. Like, "I seen the fire coming toward my house..." I'm usually just wondering how the hell does anybody even learn to say that?

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Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:50 pm
Well, I didn't mean to imply it was my friends/acquaintances saying that. It's usually somebody on TV getting interviewed about something. Like, "I seen the fire coming toward my house..." I'm usually just wondering how the hell does anybody even learn to say that?
Ah. Maybe that's a function of disasters' affinity for trailer parks?


Chechen warlord invites Musk to Russia after he’s filmed driving machine-gun mounted Cybertruck (with pics)

It's the warlord, not Musk, who has the weaponized truck. Sloppy, AP, sloppy.
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I liked this one because I had no idea what the fuck it was about....."Nathan Flornece Swallowed Alive Surfing Brazilian Death Slab." I didn't know what to expect, but it was a surfing thing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nathan- ... 46953.html

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Too sad a story to make fun of, but it's still another fail by the headline writer:

'Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s Sister Katie Speaks Out After Their Deaths: ‘Absolutely No Words’ "

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I liked this one because I had no idea what the fuck it was about....."Nathan Flornece Swallowed Alive Surfing Brazilian Death Slab." I didn't know what to expect, but it was a surfing thing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nathan- ... 46953.html
Curiosity got me to click.


David Muir, NBC, teaser on a 10 year old girl missing in the woods: "They found her sleeping with a drone." :wtf:
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Vrede too wrote:
Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:54 pm
neoplacebo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:46 pm
I liked this one because I had no idea what the fuck it was about....."Nathan Flornece Swallowed Alive Surfing Brazilian Death Slab." I didn't know what to expect, but it was a surfing thing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nathan- ... 46953.html
Curiosity got me to click.


David Muir, NBC, teaser on a 10 year old girl missing in the woods: "They found her sleeping with a drone." :wtf:
:lol: That headline made me think ''wtf" is this? Having never even touched a surfboard I was totally clueless. The whole goddamn experience made me feel like trump when he's asked a question and then spirals off into irrelevant gibberish. Except in my case, after reading the story, I'd have been able to answer a question about it.

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neoplacebo wrote:
Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:02 am
:lol: That headline made me think ''wtf" is this? Having never even touched a surfboard I was totally clueless. The whole goddamn experience made me feel like trump when he's asked a question and then spirals off into irrelevant gibberish. Except in my case, after reading the story, I'd have been able to answer a question about it.
:D

Clickbait:

Heavy snow falls on Las Vegas during November snowstorm

:wtf: :roll: It's Las Vegas, NM.
Las Vegas, NM is at 6,441 ft (1,963 m).
Las Vegas, NV is at 2,001 ft (610 m).
:ateeth:
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More on that same misdirection:
"City of Las Vegas recovering after unexpected, record-breaking snow"
"City" population about 13K

https://www.yahoo.com/news/city-las-veg ... 42378.html

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O Really wrote:
Sun Nov 10, 2024 1:03 pm
More on that same misdirection:
"City of Las Vegas recovering after unexpected, record-breaking snow"
"City" population about 13K

https://www.yahoo.com/news/city-las-veg ... 42378.html
Yup. Las Vegas, NV population is 642K.


This got me excited for a moment:

Thousands rally in Georgia to question the vote and demand a new election

Yahoo/AP could have put 'Tbilisi, Georgia' in the headline.


Megan Fox Announces Fourth Pregnancy with Grungy Nude Photo Shoot

Is black paint "Grungy" or is it avant garde?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCPh1gGzj9u/?img_index=1
What would Kurt Cobain, or Heloise, say? Then, there's this weird paragraph:
... Kelly is already mom to Noah, Bodhi, and Journey with ex-husband Brian Austin Green.
Fox and Kelly aren't married, she hasn't taken his last name and it isn't 'Kelly', anyhow. Kelly is not "mom" to anyone.
Machine Gun Kelly is also a dad, to daughter Casie Colson Baker, whom she shares with ex Emma Cannon.
"she shares"? Kelly is not trans. Was this written by a gender-confused AI? How did it get past an editor?
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Clickbait:

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

:roll:

I was prepared to be horrified and mournful. In reality, the Viking 1 mission in 1976 may have killed any life present in soil samples it was testing by adding water. No theoretical life-killing extended beyond those samples.
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This headline isn't just confusing, it's flat out wrong:

Scientist claims NASA may have accidentally killed all life on Mars

Again, the Viking 1 mission in 1976 may have killed any life present in the soil samples it was testing by adding water, and just those samples. There's nothing in the article about killing "all life on Mars". :ateeth:
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The headline is okay, but . . .
I Ran a Half-Marathon with a Donkey
Forget the Turkey Trot – Colorado’s Burro Racing has donkeys and mountains instead.


Image

... But the crowning glory of this festival is undoubtedly the Leadville Boom Days Burro race, where participants run a 15—or 21-mile race while tethered to a trained racing burro....
The pic is:
Somali Wild Donkey on the mountain background in Hai-Bar nature reserve (Israel)

The non-US antelope is a HUGE clue. Opps.
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