[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe I'm tired but this comment reads to me as if you're disagreeing with me when everything you say supports what I said? My objection/question was how you came to the conclusion it's a US/UK thing. There's no support for that in the article.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Correct. But extrOvert makes no sense, etymologically (latin). The dictionaries accept it, but I (jokingly) don't.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Tldr A British English, O American English

What? How did you get to that conclusion? That's not what the article says at all? It says Phyllis Blanchard used the (incorrect) spelling with an O (while also changing the definition of the term to something most people I think would disagree with) in a paper she wrote and nobody knows why. And it spread from there.

I think you're interpreting "Today, ExtrOvert is the most common spelling of the term in the United States." to mean it's spelled with an A elsewhere, but the author even brings up the Oxford Dictionary (UK) that says that the original spelling with an A is rare in general use. I live outside the US and I pretty much exclusively see the O-spelling.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I get so much satisfaction whenever I see extravert spelled correctly, which is very rare these days.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

So confident, yet so wrong.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

If it's too long I don't even start reading, I back out immediately.

If I start reading and see it's a bunch of back story with too much detail I might skip to the next block. If it isn't to the point within the first five words of that block or the next I back out. I've got dopamine receptors to satisfy God dammit.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago

That last paragraph was very short. But I hear some don't mind it like that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Those purchases aren't paid for by Only Fans. It's the content creators who pay for all that (unless there's a way to get sponsored by OF, I don't know). However, reliably storing and streaming video in high quality across the globe with low latency, both live and on demand, which is what OF does, is expensive af. It's one of the reasons, if not the main one, there are no real competitors to YouTube.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

So here we and giraffes both exist

Source?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Train station and bus station. Why isn't it called boat station and plane station?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

How is 70% of what customers pay the same as 70% of their profits?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That was actually rather hilarious.

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