[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Truck-kun still at large.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

"How long are your guts?" is pretty raunchy if you're using the back door. Doubting your physical compatibility is a level of brag that inspires fantasy smut.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

OOPs initial instinct was correct. You're supposed to answer truthfully based on your actual observed experiences, not answer questions about others' assessments your behavior with your own internal assessment of that behavior. Overthinking surveys can skew answers inappropriately.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

League of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I would still qualify "space" as a noun here, but that's if you accept these kinds of constructions as sequences of nouns rather than the zero-conversion of nouns into and adjectives.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I guess fashions come and go, but I never understood the appeal of that bright/flat, chalk/paper white color on nails.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

It's the localized update of a localized update of a localized update of a localized update to a social construct.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Aboitions are what prohibition-era goilfriends got for unwanted pregnancies.

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Afaik, English grammar requires utterances with predicates to have a stressed element in those predicates. Contractions of only a subject and an auxiliary verb - ex: I am > I'm, he has > he's, they will > they'll - eliminate that independent auxiliary as a prosodic segment and violate that grammar.

A - "Who's going to the store?"

B - "I am." [ok] or "I'm going." [ok] (or "I am going."), but not "I'm." [bad, obvs].

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's at least the wiki article on the English subjunctive.

Personal disclaimer: To me (though I'm not a perfect reporter), (American) English feels like it barely has a subjunctive mood in practice anymore. If you're familiar with the pragmatic application of the subjunctive in your own language or others, that may help, but YMMV for how often and how consistently you'll hear it used in everyday English speech (at least in the US).

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

"Homosexuality can never... be justified." is an odd choice, but I'm sure that's what nets some positive responses in various cultures. I wonder how the reverse question would poll - "Homosexuality requires justification.".

[-] MaybeNaught@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wait a sec, wasn't the majority of that land in the western states claimed by New Spain and then Mexico? How is the maker of this map qualifying "land of native nations"?

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