For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

    • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 年前

      I’ve never actually heard anyone call it X before, unless they were making a joke about the whole thing. Everybody I know still calls it Twitter. Calling it X is just embarrassing.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 年前

    Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. Discord isn’t searchable by search engines.

    Historically, if I had an issue with a product and I googled “[product] [issue]” I’d be met with a support forum post, with someone describing the same issue. I could read the thread to find how they resolved it. I don’t actually have to interact with the post at all, and I don’t need to ask the same question again. For most (decent) forums I don’t even need to make an account just to read the post.

    Discord throws that all out the window. Now I’m met with a “JoiN OUr dIScoRd SerVEr to GEt suPPorT” page. Nothing is searchable via a search engine. And Discord’s server searchability (even in the app) has always been, at best, absolute dogshit. You already need to know exactly which text thread things were posted in, (because you can’t search the entire server at once), and you need to know exactly what was said, (because there’s no fuzzed search terms).

    So 99% of the time, you just end up asking the same question that has already been asked a hundred times in the past, and now you need to wait for someone to respond. It also puts a lot more strain on the support staff, because they’re answering the same question a hundred times instead of just the once in a forum.

    And don’t come at me with the “but Discord recently added a support forum feature where people can start threads and save the conversation for later” bullshit. That’s a band-aid, at best. It still isn’t searchable via search engines, so it means the above issues with Discord’s search function still apply, and the forum function is essentially useless as support forums.

    Lastly, why the fuck should I be forced to join another server just to get support? What if I don’t have a discord account? What if I live in a region that Discord doesn’t support? What if I just plain don’t want to clog up my server sidebar with dozens of servers that I have only visited once? What if I just really hate the fact that your server has been configured to push notifications for every single message by default? What if I just fucking want to google my issue, and get an answer without any further effort?

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 年前

        I’d argue that this is petty, because you’re still technically able to get support for your issue in the end. It just takes a lot more effort in everyone involved; More effort on your end to actually get support, and more effort on support staff because they have already answered your question a hundred times further up the thread.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 年前

    If it were supposed to be pronounced “jif” it would have been spelled that way, I don’t give two fucks what Stephen Wilhite said about it either.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.org
      4·
      2 年前

      Same with Gnome wanting to be pronounced “Gah-nome”, or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced, or accept that people pronounce it another way

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 年前

        or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced

        But they did! You’re the one who fucked it up by using an “x” (Latin letter x) instead of a “χ” (Greek letter chi).

        (Also, you didn’t capitalize or format it correctly. It’s supposed to be rendered as “LAΤΕΧ”, and yes, those last three letters are Τ Ε Χ Greek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)

        🤓

      • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 年前

        Gnome is spelt the way they want it to be said. Are you suggesting that gnome should be pronounced ‘nome’ like the garden ornament with a silent g.

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Also .JIF is already a file format and as far as I know, it’s pronounced, “jif” just like it looks. So if “gif” and “jif” are supposed to be pronounced the same way, then why do we even have the letter J? Fuck the letter C too while we’re at it, get a unique sound, you bastard letter.

      https://fileinfo.com/extension/jiff

      • atocci@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 年前

        But why? We don’t pronounce any other acronyms like that, so why treat GIF different? The U in SCUBA isn’t pronounced like it is in Underwater. The first A in CAPTCHA isn’t pronounced the same as in Automated and the CH isn’t split up to be pronounced like Computer and Human. The second A in NASA isn’t pronounced like in Administration and the I in PIN doesn’t get pronounced like Identification.

        We read acronyms as their own words, not as a collection of the first sounds of each constituent word.

        • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 年前

          Tbf, you’re pointing out the vowels which make the sounds needed to pronounce the acronym as a word. But I get it, either way, we’re pronouncing the word as a standalone word.

        • slouching_employer@lemmy.oneEnglish
          0·
          2 年前

          🤷 just cause?

          Also, “gift”

          Have any examples where the first letter of the acronym isn’t pronounced the same? (I’m sure there are some)

          • jaycifer@lemmy.world
            0·
            2 年前

            UFO, not that that’s a super relevant question if we’re already admitting that our opinions are “just cause.” I think at that point the better question is “if just cause, why is there such a split in opinions?”

            I think the reason GIF is so contentious is that if we can there’s a tendency to make acronyms sound like words if possible. FUBAR and SCUBA are pronounced the way they are because we’re trained from words like tuba to see the UBA and use a long U. Something like “oofo” (or “uh-fo” as you would likely argue) for UFO sounds like half a word, hence pronouncing the letters individually. The thing about GIF is that both pronunciations sound like a word, and so both feel valid enough that there can be a split in opinions. Any arguments one way or the other is just trying to justify a gut feeling about which way is “proper.”

            • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 年前

              To be fair, UFO is an initialism, not an acronym. But at the same time, if it was, I think it’d still be an example, because we’d likely pronounce the U like “oo” (as in “boo”), lol

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
      01·
      2 年前

      It IS spelled that way

      The inventor of the GIF pronounces it with a soft G

      Geoffrey

      Giraffe

      Gymnasium

      There are plenty of examples of that pronunciation

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      2 年前

      If it were meant to be pronounced ‘giff’ as in ‘goober’, it would have been spelled that way. You decide to turn an initialism into an acronym, you get what you get.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        It always WAS an acronym. That’s the entire point of the argument. "G"raphics "I"nterchange "F"ormat.

        Nobody turned it into an acryonym, it just IS an acronym. That’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. The reason it’s pronounced with a hard G is because Graphics is a hard G.

  • DLSantini@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 年前

    To streamers, YouTubers, etc. Your Patreon supporters are called Patrons. Not fucking “Patreons.”

  • medgremlin@midwest.social
    10·
    2 年前

    The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.

    Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 年前

      Similarly, the Shamrock, (☘️) an important symbol for Saint Patrick’s Day has three leaves where most SPD kitch sold in the US features four-leaf clovers (🍀) an unrelated good luck symbol. I dont object because I feel Ireland needs a better iconic saint (and a better holiday) than the guy who brought the imperialist religion under which the native Irish would be subjugated.

      They need someone like Joan of Arc who ran the English out (of settlements in France).

    • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 年前

      Would two snakes on an ambulance be acceptable? They’re kind of like couriers of the sick and injured.

      • medgremlin@midwest.social
        1·
        2 年前

        That’s the only time I think it’s acceptable. Ambulances are kind of a venn diagram of healthcare and couriers, so the 2 snakes on the star of life makes sense.

      • Teddy@programming.dev
        01·
        2 年前

        They may need to mix it up by switching to 2 crossed staffs with a total of 3 snakes to get it juuusst right.

      • medgremlin@midwest.social
        2·
        1 年前

        The doctors that only ever studied medicine and nothing else have a tendency to be impressively stupid in anything that isn’t their direct specialty.

  • verity_kindle@lemmy.world
    133·
    2 年前

    “white chocolate” doesn’t exist. It’s just sugar and a little bit of cocoa butter. It’s edible wax. It’s not chocolate and it doesn’t belong in any assortment of sweets, ever. Cocoa butter is skin moisturizer and that’s it.

    • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      I’ll go a step further.

      I regularly use comma’s commas where they don’t belong, just to reflect my speech patterns IRL.

  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 年前

    If something’s rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
    7·
    2 年前

    The reverse toilet paper thing is useful when you have pet that’s like to mess with it.

    But either way is ok for me, I guess.

    I mean, I couldn’t care fewer about it.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 年前

    CEREAL FIRST, THEN MILK!!! COLD MILK! I DON’T CARE HOW YOUR MOM USED TO FIX IT, THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT WAY!!!

    • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      2 年前

      But then I finish the cereal. Still hungry - some milk in the bowl. I proceed to add more cereal on the milk. Fuck you.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        I have (minor) beef with ISO 8601. It’s very wishy washy about fractional seconds. It’s like “eh, idc if you use a period or a comma to separate them”

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 年前

        Plus slashes are more likely to be blocked by arbitrary character set validation, and fail. Dashes more clearly distinguish the segments and are more compatible

        • tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          2 年前

          And don’t work in filenames. But yes, files being in the same order when sorted lexicographic or chronologically makes me smile.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Good for computers and spreadsheets, bad for people in mundane use.

      Most of the time I know what year I’m dealing with so it goes in the back. Putting the day first doesn’t help until I know what month we mean, so the month goes first.

      Nightmare for file names and stuff though.

      • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        2 年前

        What you’re saying makes s lot of sense, but how do you speak dates?

        When did you start working your current job? It was in 2022, Aprill 11th

        What’s your anniversary date? We were married on 2012, September the 9th.

        People don’t talk that way, which is how writing them down got to be the MMDDYYYY format in the first place. Technically, it was MMDDYY exclusively until mid 1999.

  • nick@midwest.social
    6·
    2 年前

    It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

    Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      It’s “cement concrete,” or in other words, concrete with a cementitious binder (e.g. lime, Portland cement, pozzolan, fly ash, etc.).

      That’s in contrast to “asphalt concrete” (the black stuff roads are often paved with), which is concrete with a heavy petroleum (asphalt, a.k.a. bitumen) binder.

      “Concrete” just means aggregate plus a fluid binder that cures and hardens. Arguably, things like epoxy quartz countertops and terrazzo flooring are “concrete,” too.