The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RPGMemes @ttrpg.network · 3 months agoOuting yourselflemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1imageOuting yourselflemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RPGMemes @ttrpg.network · 3 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squaretimgrant@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThis is just another way to out yourself, gamer.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoSort of. “Dice” is both plural and singular, “die” is just singular. (According to both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries at any rate.)
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThey are entitled to their wrong opinions.
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoUnlike most things, if enough people have wrong opinions on language they stop being wrong. Which is why it’s our responsibility to bully them for their opinions
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoGrammar nazis of the world, unite!
minus-square...m...@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·3 months ago…f*ck the OED; they don’t even speak proper american…
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·3 months agoWe don’t speak English here sir. We speak American
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoAka Modern English. Not that old Legacy version.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoActually, the American Southern dialect is believed to be closer to the English Shakespeare would have spoken than modern British accents. the same os believed to be true for the Quebec accent, as the groups that settled these areas became isolated and evolved at a slower pace than the home countries. So American is closer to the legacy version, while British is the modern one.
singular of “dice” is “die” btw
This is just another way to out yourself, gamer.
Sort of. “Dice” is both plural and singular, “die” is just singular. (According to both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries at any rate.)
They are entitled to their wrong opinions.
Unlike most things, if enough people have wrong opinions on language they stop being wrong.
Which is why it’s our responsibility to bully them for their opinions
Grammar nazis of the world, unite!
Sing, sing, sing with me!
my house mice jeff agrees
…f*ck the OED; they don’t even speak proper american…
We don’t speak English here sir. We speak American
Aka Modern English. Not that old Legacy version.
Actually, the American Southern dialect is believed to be closer to the English Shakespeare would have spoken than modern British accents. the same os believed to be true for the Quebec accent, as the groups that settled these areas became isolated and evolved at a slower pace than the home countries. So American is closer to the legacy version, while British is the modern one.