Microphone is shorted to “mic” not “mike”.

If it doesn’t function as a downspout, then it’s a grotesque, not a gargoyle.

Understanding an argument doesn’t mean you agree with it.

Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

• Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

• On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

• a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)

Please spell and punctuate correctly, and don’t use “common use” as an excuse to hide your egotistical unwillingness to learn.

Good french fries don’t need ketchup

It’s pronounced “gif”

Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

The word is “yeah”.

Not “yea”.

The later rhymes with “yay” and means something similar to but distinct from "yes’

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

Browsing a thread like this is far preferable to doomscrolling through the actual news feed on the frontpage of Lemmy/Reddit.

I like to eat my breakfast and have my morning coffee while I scroll the internet a bit, and it always leaves me feeling worse off. But if I scroll through a bunch of weird user-written opinions that nobody is really taking seriously… far better time, left feeling much better off.

The calendar should be 13 4-week months that always end on Sunday.

The leftover day should be considered a worldwide holiday.

Any time there is a leap year situation, all that time gets added to this one day, like the injury time at the end of a soccer/football match.

You do not need to bless people when they sneeze, ever. That’s all, thank you.

In German I deliberately write the word “Standard” (same meaning as the English “standard”) with “t” at the end: “Standart”. Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as “standartmäßig” or “Standartabweichung” (“according to standard”, “standard deviation”).

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), “Standard” developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound “standhard” just as in “stand + hard”, meaning “standing firm” or “steadfast” (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French “estendre”: such as in “extend”.

However, while the particle “hard” became “hart” in modern German, officially, “Standard” still has to be written with the “d”. Thus, writing “Standart” with “t” is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don’t care, because “hard” is still written with “d”, therefore “standard” is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare “Standart” a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing “Standart”, until “Standart” becomes the new ‘Standart’. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German “Standard” is usually even pronounced with the harder “t”. Nobody says “Standard” with the soft “d” as it is usual in English. Same thing with “hart”. So even more reason to update the German ‘Standard’ to ‘Standart’.