I personally have the opposite issue. Things often sound way too much like satire these days when they get referenced or pop up in memes, then I find a reputable article talking about it. Everything sounds like !nottheonion@lemmy.world
We did have a guy who intentionally changed a bunch of the spelling, you are right about that.
But one day if we are brave we’ll get rid of the u in a lot of British words like color and armor. But by god we will keep the British u in the word glamour!
Socks is feet out? Wouldn’t that also mean t-shirt is shirtless?
I never do random drive by grammar replies, but since you put it in your edit: affect is a verb and effect is a noun usually but the way you used it needs the verb form of effect, meaning “to bring something into being/existence”. So essentially you’re saying it’s difficult to create change in the two parties.
Note that affect can also be a noun (and is pronounced differently than the verb, with the emphasis on the first syllable), referring to someone’s demeanor. You normally see it when talking about psychology.
China did that to me too, except I didn’t miss my flight. After getting off the plane they made us go through immigration and when they asked how long I was staying I said about 3 hours. Stamped my passport with a 1 day visa haha
Not to be confused with sweetbread (pancreas)
In some states you can buy booze pretty much anywhere. I moved out of the country for awhile and when I went back home I stopped into an ice cream shop slash convenience store, and when I was surprised to see the 6 coolers of beer along the back wall I realized I’d been gone a long time.
Every comedy song was by weird al
Mine does the language switch as well, but I can get cursor control if I tap and hold space before moving left or right.
They died way before that when japan started putting ketchup on pasta
In some style guides single letters get pluralized with an apostrophe to differentiate from similar words. You’d talk about all the a’s in a sentence because otherwise you’re writing as, and then for consistency’s sake you do the same with other single letters too.
Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
Wreckless Eric has a 2 chord song
There are a lot of long form researched videos that I like on yt. They could definitely be hosted on a different site but having stuff like those in a central location lets people find them more easily.
Smashing pumpkins into small(?) piles of putrid debris
When I was 13 I thought “You go Holden! Tell off all those phonies!” At 18 I thought “This whiny asshole won’t stfu.” Then as an adult I realized “Oh, poor kid was dealing with a lot of unaddressed trauma.”