[-] philthi@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

But the idea of an indicator is to indicate that you will soon turn the steering wheel, not that you've already started to turn it.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's hilarious to me, that "safety first" is written second

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Aaah thank you, I reread the original post trying to find a point related to a ladder and eventually decided I just didn't understand what the "ladder point" was referring to, but now I understand them!

Languages are fun :)

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I noticed how many of the verbs in English can mean different things depending on what word comes next, e.g.

  • Put
  • Put down
  • Put up
  • Put upon
  • Put on (wear)

English has so many words that mean the same thing, it's amazing, astonishing, bewildering and flabbergasting, there was a thief, mugger, robber, bandit... Who stole, robbed, nicked, thieved from me... I don't know how anyone ever learns all the English words for stuff, I honestly don't know how I have.

It also made me reflect on how languages are just noises we've all agreed to make at each other. The rules try to match the language and fail, not the other way around.

Recently I was also thinking about how interesting it is that some words we use are SO OLD, and we just... use them like it's no big deal, but if we we're transported back thousands of years, people were still calling vanilla something very similar to vanilla and arteries something very similar to arteries, and that is super cool to me.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I was essentially certain that this meant: "their face when"

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I'm almost certain this is pine, the grain lines are very spaced apart, suggesting it was grown very rapidly too, so probably not a very old table.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 140 points 3 months ago

It took me a while but "cocktails" for anyone else out there like me

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

"You ARE the droid I've been looking for"

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Or to quote Terry Pratchett:

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it did suck. It is much much better now though. I genuinely enjoy it at the moment.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry to correct you, but it's actually nipped in the bud. I'd hate for you to use that in public and get egg on your plate.

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