• 3 years ago
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    What if we stopped capitalizing i, and started capitalizing You

    Truly the world would be a better place
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    • WoodrowShigeru
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      Editing … At least, the english speaking world.
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      Editing … i think You are nuts.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … I genuinely never understood why we capitalize I
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … I guess it's because it takes the place of your name? It's your title, and titles are always capitalized. I think. I dunno, I suck at grammar.
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    • Caff
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      Editing … I was about to research a legitimate answer, but then I remembered this is Favslist, and no one truly cares
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … We all know the real answer: Spoiler penis
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  • 7 years ago
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    These things are always popping up on Facebook. I'm curious as to how non-native speakers handle things like this:

    http://i.imgur.com/lHpzsfA.jpg
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  • 8 years ago
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Apparently we all spoke French at one point, probably after the Norman conquest.
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    • Rich .
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      Rich .
      Editing … Not all of us, just the nobles.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … How did they boss around the servants?
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    • Rich .
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      Rich .
      Editing … Either they were bilingual or their servants were. Mostly the latter. They also made the main language of the legal system French for a while.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Whoo servants > nobles!
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    • Caff
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      Editing … ^Well, if you like servants so much, I've figured out your future occupation
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      Editing … I already go to work.
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      Editing … Go 99%!
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  • 8 years ago
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    Simultaneously the best and worst language.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Dinnae be dissin ma language, pal. Doon ere in Scotland we speek braw English!
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    • Caff
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      Editing … Or so you say, as your kilt descends from above
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Yes, that's definitely a sentence I have heard.
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … That's the first of Riley's posts in forever that made me laugh. Well done
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    • 271072a
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      Editing … Damn gries is straight savage.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … I speak Yorkshire
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      Editing … I speak american because I don't like speaking commie languages. USA! USA!
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … I mean if you want to get technical, I speak Glaswegian, Scottish and English.
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      Editing … Now I'm not sure if I should be proud or offended by Gries...
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      Editing … Everything I say or do invokes this feeling in people, you're in good company.
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  • 8 years ago
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    I love the english because people don't give a damn if you're making mistakes (at least in Favsland and other english-speaking individuals around me). In french, a mistake is as invasive as a second nose on a face.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … >The english :I
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … In all seriousness tho, I think it's because we're not English, so we're not expected to write it perfectly. Whereas French, as a French, you're probably expected to not make mistakes. Same with me and Portuguese.
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    • Caff
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      Editing … It's okay, not even native speakers of English speak English without mistakes.
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      Editing … We don't know what the word literally means, and when inanimate objects bug us, we ask them if they're serious.
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      Editing … I can haz Engrish and I'm grateful for dat
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  • 9 years ago
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    Seriously, what the …? I'm stuck in a game and I'm wondering if this really is a game-specific hint or rather a simple colloquial term in English.

    The in-game clue goes "If anything happens to me, search under my combo in catalog!"

    There's a guy in this game who was murdered but has left all sorts of clues to help find the murderer. I've already figured out that I have to search for this "combo" in the school library's catalog computer. But what is this "combo" he's talking of?! Is it slang for initials or nickname or something like that?
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      Editing … Searching "combo library" points me to the color combinations code for html. You know "[color=#FFFF]" for example. It can also be the code that the library have for each book? Just some ideas
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      Editing … yeah … maybe that. I'll try that.
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      Editing … Limited context but I would say that combo is short for combination. What is the setting of this game / is there something in this setting that requires a number combination to open because if there is I would imagine it wants you to to search the 'catalog' for that characters numbers.
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      Editing … The setting is a school and maybe they mean his locker number which, to figure out, was a puzzle in itself. It's the best lead, I'd say.
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      Editing … Yeah if it's a school it's totally going to be the locker combo.
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      Editing … Do kids really say "combo" to their locker number?
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      Editing … At my work place the code used to get into the building is called the "door combo" or "key combo" by absolutely everyone. (Ages range from 20-60ish) I didn't have lockers at my school but in all the American media I watched growing up combo was used in this way as well.
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      Editing … It really was the locker code, and it really was an English term. A thousand likes to you. Completed the game thanks to you (and my gut feeling which made me ask in the first place).
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      Editing … [Additional information]: The slang term exists in American English, but no one uses it; everyone just says "combination".
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … so, which game were you playing?
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