App idea: hire an Indian call center to place food orders for pickup from Indian restaurants
App idea: hire an Indian call center to place food orders for pickup from Indian restaurants
Buy dried ghost pepper flakes. You can kick up the heat on anything without affecting the flavor or adding a bunch of unnecessary vinegar
Yeah there are two types of white person, one says yellow mustard is too spicy and the other is slathering his chicken wings with something called “asspocalypse”
is this why mao won
YES. The word “die” is being used figuratively to provide a completely alternate meaning, and the word “literal” is used to affirm that the alternate meaning literally happened. If the word “literally” HAS evolved a new definition, it’s “fr fr” and absolutely not “figuratively”.
The word “literal” gets people too wrapped up in the mechanics, and it makes them want to go all fucking Amelia Bedelia everywhere.
Die means to stop functioning, to become weak, to wither. A motor can die. That’s what it means there. In that sentence, the word “literally” is used to affirm that there was an actual shutdown, that the person was really stunned, that they really had some kind of crisis, and that they aren’t just looking back on it with growing embarrassment after the fact and embellishing.
There is some added confusion because most languages really don’t have many words for feelings, so people have had to just borrow words to describe them. Emotional states aren’t inherently figurative - “that literally hurt my feelings” doesn’t refer to like, damage to nerve endings in the skin- “feeling” is just based off a simpler, older word for touch.
And again, it’s exactly the same as the words really, actually, seriously, honestly, unironically, none of which are getting supposedly redefined. I can use the word honestly as part of a lie. I can use the word unironically ironically. I can use the word literally as part of a figurative sentence. The actual individual words don’t need to change at all. You don’t need to “fix” the definition of words people are saying so that you can imagine they are speaking more plainly than they are.
Nobody who says “I literally died” is including the word “literally” because they want to ensure the person that the death w as figurative, that they didn’t have some brief cardiac arrest. Even if they say “BRUH I literally went 6 feet under the ground and fucking ROTTED” they are basically just joking. The word literally itself doesn’t need to change here.
Why not change the word “rotted”?? Oh I guess “rotted” now means “continued living in good health” because otherwise they’d be lying.
And most of all, FUCK. Literally is often an important clarifying word. If people actually start using “left turn” to mean “right turn” you should stop them! That will cause actual problems. Not because it sounds funny to you. Sounding funny is the thing that bothers prescriptivists. If people believe the “literally” propaganda and teach it to enough kids, a very valuable word becomes absolutely unusable and goes to the fucking graveyard like “bi-weekly”
Barely on topic: The idea that “literally” has changed to mean “figuratively” is completely false and is the only instance I know of where people tried so hard to be descriptivists that they failed and did prescription.
The example “I literally died” is referenced the most, but “died” doesn’t even mean “got murdered” here- it means shut down, in an emotional sense.
If someone said “I dropped my pencil in front of everyone, I literally died” someone could say “really though” and the reply would be like “okay yeah not literally, I just got a little flustered over it.”
Literally died means yes, I actually had such strong embarrassment that it mentally incapacitated me, I didn’t just blush.
Actual dictionary writers have misunderstood this and included “figuratively” as an alternate meaning even though nobody has ever used it that way except when they’re talking about descriptivism. It’s actually embarrassing.
Notice that they did not redefine the words seriously, actually, immediately, really, for real, unironically, or honestly. Even though those can all be used in the same situation, “oh my god I seriously died”… Linguists you do not have to edit the dictionary to retroactively prevent people from lying or being imprecise, ok?
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Yeah it’s a tooth bare, not a smile, his eyes should be thinning but that would make the eye smaller and less noticeable which would be bad youtube SEO, so you get this fucking corpse smile
Yeah I get why kids would just not have the media literacy, I’m more annoyed that older, more intelligent people have suppressed the instinct they ALL had because they saw a few people online just saying it’s legit and fine.
It’s just endlessly incredible that people can look at shit like this
and be like no, it’s totally normal, his videos are like, charity.
CMON, YOU GOTTA GO WITH YOUR GUT A LITTLE FUCKIN MORE THAN THAT
I was thinking what if you did VOICE to TEXT to VOICE
That would be good for faster paced games where you cant type. You can say things literally however you want and then it comes out as the flat AI voice on the other end
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MY favorite western strategy to instill Western Values™ is to intentionally seek out the most right-wing weirdos in the country, go out of our way to convince them that women’s rights is a Communist plot to lead them to Satan, and supply them with stinger missiles
I would absolutely not put it past Google to get in there and do that. My god I hope the FTC puts their head on a pole, I know the odds aren’t great but ohhhhhh it could happen ohhhhhhhhhhHHH
Yeah I did have to type them all out myself, it’s pretty painstaking for some videos but it does give you the option of auto-matching the lines to the timestamps which usually works quite well. I always do it because it helps with accessibility as well as translation
I know.
I’m saying the game will likely be very buggy. So if I am able to play a type of game mode that disables saving, I will likely choose that mode, but I will also re-enable saving. Because I want to have the other gameplay effects but I do not want to lose progress due to crashing and other bugs.
I’m referring to how Fallout 4 had a hardcore mode that made you drink water and stuff and also disabled saving without sleeping. It crashed way too much for that - for instance you’d walk back after fighting and looting for 2 hours, and as soon as Sanctuary loaded it would instant CTD.
Oh yeah I just use it when the spice is too toned down on a dish that should kick