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Bought a new pack of a hair product which now uses 6% less natural ingredients and is no longer vegan (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 99 points 2 years ago* (42 children)

"Matt" paste? Isn't it "matte" or am I taking crazy pills again?

Edit: What the fuck... It's spelled differently in the UK, the US, and Canada (where I'm from). It's matte in Canada, mat in US, and matt in the UK.

From the Government of Canada website: https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/matte-mat-matt

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  • [–] 150 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Pretty sure it's matte in the US, too

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Seconded. Literally have never seen it spelled mat.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Mat" is a small rug usually for wiping shoes on. "Matt" is a boy's name, short for Matthew. "Matte" means the opposite of glossy.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Colour me surprised, at least you greybeards have honour enough to spell some words correct.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thirding the notion that it's definitely not "mat" in the US. A mat is something you put on the ground, Matt is my cousin's ex-fiance, and matte is a surface finish with little to no shine.

    Really don't know what people say English is hard to learn, we use the same word for so many things that there's fewer words to learn /s

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    From the UK. I've never seen matte spelled as matt. CA, UK and AU are generally pretty close with spelling, whereas the US is usually off doing its own thing. It's a similar thing to blonde and blond.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Blonde = female; blond = male

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    What if they're non-binary?

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    If they're non-binary, you're going to be so anxious about using the right pronouns that you won't even notice their hair color.

    Edit: it's a joke answer,, people, in response to a joke question. It's not made at the expense of any marginalized individual or group. The only people who would be anxious about the situation are allies; the 'phobes don't give a shit. Untwist yer knickers.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nah, most enbys are chill and recognize that pronouns can be easy to forget. You're just upset that people get annoyed when you repeatedly misgender them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had firsthand experience when an enby stayed at our place for a while. My old Gen X self had trouble remembering to use the correct pronouns sometimes, but it got easier with practice. Decades of using only binary pronouns for individuals takes time to unlearn.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I'll be honest, it took me a while to start remembering "they/them", even for myself. However, now I have the opposite problem, which is that I tend to substitute "they/them" for gendered pronouns. Normally that's not a problem because most people accept neutral pronouns, but some people can be very picky about their pronouns and then I have to remember that "they/them" can't be universally applied to everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Now I'm not saying anything, but I dated a Matt, and he did produce a lot of paste... I'd have to run the numbers to see if it's viable for mass-production though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yep all 3 are valid, matte is the new variant. https://www.etymonline.com/word/matte#etymonline_v_9722

    And I’ve seen all 3 in use in the USA. It’s not matte = Canada. I’ve seen matte more than mat which is historically the spelling. The oed doesn’t list matt as the proper spelling but who knows with the brits.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Chamber's dictionary has it as "Mat, or Matt, or matte" stating that it comes from the French "mat" or the German "matt", so fuck knows where matte comes from!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    The American spelling "matte" probably comes from the spelling "mate" derived from French "mate", and doubling the "t" to differentiate it from "mate". The British spelling "matt" was probably primarily influenced by the German word "Matt" considering the UK tended to have more German influence.

    Alternatively, either (or both) may be an etymological spelling from Latin "mattus" (which means "drunk" but likely became a word for "pale" in French).

    While I am a linguist, I only deduced this from a bit of Googling and a lot of speculating, so don't take my word for it...

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