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World News@lemmy.world•What Is Going on with All This Radioactive Shrimp?English
26·1 month ago
It’s racist to use immigration law to maintain a racial underclass. For instance, many essential agricultural workers in the US do not have access to the courts or law enforcement to protect their rights. If a citizen assaults one of these workers, the worker cannot safely report the assault to law enforcement without being punished for doing so.
Navigation difficulties in the vicinity of Albuquerque, NM
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World News@lemmy.world•4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBCEnglish
45·3 months agoThey run ads. They actually have pretty reasonable ads policies, too.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"make out" has an awful lot of meanings for two words that seemingly don't make any sense together
18·3 months agoI saw a bumper sticker yesterday that was a PG-rated version of an old slogan: MAKE OUT, NOT WAR
How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There’s German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there’s Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there’s Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika …
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Necromancers imply the existence of Necrowomancers.
5·4 months agoNecromancers imply the existence of necplatonics.
If you see this, it worked for me.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I'm looking for a book about philosophy and I can't find it by searching
1·4 months agoBaggini’s The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten maybe?
Okay, let’s skip the formal logic talk then and go straight to linguistics.
The question “Good to merge?” does not contain a grammatical error. It is perfectly well-formed by the grammar that native English speakers actually follow in everyday communication. A grammar that fails to parse “Good to merge?” in context cannot parse native English speakers’ actual output.
Schoolbook English is not native English, because it’s not how native English speakers actually speak. Schoolbook English contains rules that directly contradict native English speakers’ everyday usage.
(Standard examples include the rule against split infinitives and the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition. These are not grammatical rules of English as it is spoken by native speakers. To boldly assert them is silliness up with which I will not put.)
The guideline (as applied) contains a contradiction, so the principle of explosion applies.
Specifically, there is a contradiction between “native-sounding English” and “no grammatical errors”, when the latter phrase is interpreted in the manner seen here. Native speakers quite often use sentence fragments and in other ways do not follow schoolbook “proper grammar”. In fact, second-language learners often use schoolbook grammar where a native speaker would use a more relaxed register.
Since the guideline contains a contradiction, it is either impossible to follow (i.e. forbids all communication whatsoever) or impossible to violate (i.e. forbids no communication).
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some fire temple/dungeon type locations in video games?
2·4 months agoADOM’s Tower of Eternal Flame will burn you and your equipment if you’re not adequately protected. It’s also harsh on certain characters that usually benefit from heat!
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What institutions do americans trust the most?
21·4 months agoWhy don’t all the rows have the same length? Did fewer people answer the question about newspapers than about banks?
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pics@lemmy.world•Siren warning system. Lower Saluda River, South Carolina.
16·4 months agoAbsence of awooga is not evidence of safety.
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World News@lemmy.world•A Mexican court sentences 10 men to 141 years each for their role in a cartel-run recruitment ranchEnglish
51·4 months agoAnd that’s our entry for “bad headline of the day”, folks.
No, they were not ordered to serve out their sentence in a cartel-run ranch.
They were sentenced for their participation in running the ranch.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What organizations/causes/people/whatever are most worthwhile to donate to?
10·4 months agoWhat are you trying to accomplish?
Are you trying to save human lives? Reduce suffering? Reduce some specific harm, such as from pandemics, or from severe weather due to climate change, or from trampling by elephant? Cure the specific disease that killed your great-aunt? Stomp Nazis?
If you say what you think is worth doing, people can point you to specific groups that are doing it.




