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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] captain_aggravated 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My pet theory is that spoken English and written English are two different languages that kinda translate between them.

In spoken English, "I read books." doesn't have ambiguous tense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You're not exactly wrong. Spoken english was shaped by mostly the use of common people while writing was exclusively the domain of the clergy and nobility for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Noah Webster didn't go far enuf