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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago

We need to get back to pet-shaming more. It's funny, and they don't understand, nor do they have the faculties to have their feelings hurt by it.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 119 points 1 year ago
[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago

We're going to need a bigger box.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Where's my seat? Dammit

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago

Not only that but more often than not, the pet has the face of "What you gonna do about it?" which makes it even funnier.

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

I used to think "snuck" was correct, but TIL.

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never trust Merriam-Webster. I don't know if the errors I found are fixed now, but the fact they existed in the first place is disappointing. The only trustworthy English dictionary is Oxford.

Edit: Snuck is a US informal term, according to the backup dictionary, Collins. This dictionary is riddled with ads, but also multiple sources for alternative definitions.

Imagine being so far up your own ass you call another dialect a mistake that shouldn't exist.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Dialects exist

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The Merriam Webster link didn't say it was incorrect as the guy implied. They said it's a correct form and gave the history.

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[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago
[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Though, interestingly, it doesn't feel weird to me for the past form, only the past participle!

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 1 year ago

There is no 'correct', there is only what is spoken. Snuck is perfectly acceptable.

[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I snuck into your mom's house last night

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 13 points 1 year ago
[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Haha no, she wasn't able to keep mum. She never can.

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago
[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

This is the only correct form. Until this very moment I have almost always fallen on the descriptivist side of things, but this is now the prescriptivist hill I will die on.

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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I really appreciate you sharing that video with me and really enjoyed watching it.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I feel so loved right now <3

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago
[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

It depends whether you're English or American. Spelt is English.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Spelt is also a grain, a variant of wheat.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, one of the earliest cultivars

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[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Smelled or smelt?

He who smelt it delt it.

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[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"snuck" is perfectly fine, as long as that's what you've heard since birth. 🤷

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago

So, you’re telling me the cat was napping? The things they’re famous for?

Jk, I still like it.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My cats would be yelling immediately, they hate car rides.

[-] MellowSnow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol mine just about throws up when I take her 5 mins to the vet. Unfortunately for her, she has to do day-long road trips once or twice a year to visit family. But after she chills out, she's quite an easy rider. Just very anxious at the beginning haha. I love her so much 😭

[-] Lucien@mander.xyz 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like kitty is along for the ride today, because I'm not taking a 2+ hour detour

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Yea, but what do you do? No litter box, no food and water ... also, the guy has a cat meowing at him in his work van all day.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Stop and buy supplies of course! Even most grocery stores carry disposable litter pans, or just a plastic bin, along with food. Even a paper bowl will work for water.

[-] lovelily@lemmy.today 17 points 1 year ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I would love having a cat I can just bring with me anywhere I could bring a dog. I miss cats

[-] 5715@feddit.org 15 points 1 year ago

135 kilometres.

(Circa 2.3 times Saarland in north - south direction)

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's like, 1.3 times too many Saarlands.

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[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Holy moly proper use of the regular past tense of sneak?? I haven't seen that on the internet ever. "I sneaked my way into the concert, but I also snuck several beers into the venue."

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, English has two different verbs "to sneak"?

Yeah, but people will look at you weird if you use sneaked in serious contexts.

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hmmmm

My German speaking brain (as a second language, my native language is English) is interpreting “my way” and “several beers” as accusative objects, and the repeated use of “into” as clues which would make me want to use the same conjugation for both. I could see “I sneaked into the concert but I also snuck several beers in.”

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Which is just the most adorable letter

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