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Crunchums wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:44 ampatella
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wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:37 pm

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this is an outrage >: 3
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:42 pm

pedal [petal, peddle]
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metal [medal, mettle, metal]
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Post by groff_enthusiast » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:04 pm

Blissful wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:58 ama
1 down!

Edit: I went to an example words file to learn our second word (https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ap/linuxwords) and a is not in the Dict file.....
Ashenai wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:08 pmoh no

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Post by Blissful » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:08 pm

Luna wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:45 am
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Post by Blissful » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:10 pm

lol @ berating herself for getting the shark lore wrong
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:38 pm

It has been reported that a car (see attachment) has been parked in the visitor (short-term) parking overnight at [address]. If anyone has information on this car, please let me know. As a reminder, these spots are for short-term parking only. This car will be subject to be towed.
is that really how you say that? i would think it would be "this car will be subject to towing"
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Post by Ashenai » Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:51 pm

As an annoyed editor: "this car will be towed". Or "this car may be towed" if you want to make the potentiality/uncertainty explicit.

Purely from a grammar POV "this car will be subject to towing" is technically correct, but also terrible.

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Post by Rylinks » Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:52 pm

this car will be subject to towage

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:58 pm

totally unsurprising to me that they would say something less direct than "this car will be towed" or "this car may be towed" because it admits that you are somehow responsible for the towing. whereas "will be subject to towing" oh yeah you know if someone leaves their car their then they're opening themselves up to towing, really too bad but thems the rules
(which is of course a bit ridiculous: yeah you're responsible for the towing - your job is to manage the building. the set of rules that governs the visitor parking spaces are defined by you and that's reasonable. you're not the bad guy here)
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-or ... -language/ comes to mind
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Post by Khaos » Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:58 pm

i remember being told (via email) that the owness is on me

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:59 pm

Khaos wrote:i remember being told (via email) that the owness is on me
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:00 pm

one time when i was in middle school or high school (i forget) i used "owninate" in a sentence while talking to my mom and she was like "wait what" because in her mind it was onanate
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Post by Ashenai » Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:09 pm

It's so silly because "this car will be towed" is already indirect! Direct is "we will tow this car" or "we will have this car towed".

but of course yes, in corporate language no one actually takes any action, nor does anything happen to anyone, it's all just, you know *waves hands* your car now has the property of being towable

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Post by Ashenai » Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:14 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:00 pm one time when i was in middle school or high school (i forget) i used "owninate" in a sentence while talking to my mom and she was like "wait what" because in her mind it was onanate
I said I had erratic dreams and was summarily misunderstood

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Post by Khaos » Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:12 pm

Crunchums wrote:one time when i was in middle school or high school (i forget) i used "owninate" in a sentence while talking to my mom and she was like "wait what" because in her mind it was onanate
onan -> oil natural air natural (type of outdoor transformer)

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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:32 am

Ashenai wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:51 pm As an annoyed editor: "this car will be towed". Or "this car may be towed" if you want to make the potentiality/uncertainty explicit.

Purely from a grammar POV "this car will be subject to towing" is technically correct, but also terrible.
neither of those convey the same thing though - it's not a claim about the future (although ofc part of the purpose is to threaten something about the future), it's a claim of right

of course the more likely reason they used it is because it's a potted phrase for this kind of statement and they wanted it to sound legallish. which can sound goofy, especially when they fuck up the usage, but it has some value in communicating tone

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Re: Words

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:37 am

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:58 pm https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-or ... -language/ comes to mind
I strongly dislike this essay

classic example of a guy who cares a lot about aesthetics but believes he should care more about politics and so tries to convince himself that his aesthetic preferences actually have deep political significance

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