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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 months ago (3 children)

singular of "dice" is "die" btw

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sort of. “Dice” is both plural and singular, “die” is just singular. (According to both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries at any rate.)

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are entitled to their wrong opinions.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Grammar nazis of the world, unite!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sing, sing, sing with me!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We don't speak English here sir. We speak American

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aka Modern English. Not that old Legacy version.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Actually, the American Southern dialect

Individual dialects don't really apply to this type of generalization. That's really too specific.

I mean, that's a very specific part of America. Most of America doesn't speak like the Southern states. It may be the largest specific dialect grouping (I don't care enough to look into it more than a casual search), but that doesn't mean that it encompasses a majority of America. Boston also has an extremely conspicuous dialect for instance compared to the rest of the country, but we're not talking about Boston specifically ,we're talking the entire US generally.

We don't want to go about saying that British English is wholly determined by the specific dialect around London do we? Even though that's like 14% of the entire population of England.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

my house mice jeff agrees

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

...f*ck the OED; they don't even speak proper american...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This is just another way to out yourself, gamer.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

Me to my new GURPS players

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Conversely, when you refer to a wargamer's miniatures as meeples...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Damnit...

Now I want to 3d print a bunch of meeples and show up to Warhammer night at my LGS.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

God I forgot how hard the editing on that video goes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Shibboleth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago