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Astarion be like (lemmy.world)
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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 28 points 9 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 9 months ago

What if I want my coffin shaped like a casket?

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

Remove hinges from casket

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

If it's shaped it's a coffin.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

the two genders

  • shaped

  • political

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago
[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

shaped as in "shaped to the body", much like saying the clothes were tailored. you wouldn't ask "tailored to what" only one thing goes in it.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Solid snakes sneaking suit was shaped to the body. Coffins are only 'shaped to the body' if you are a brick.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

I read the meme. Its pretty simple imo.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

BRB gonna go spend eternity in my fractal box.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago

That casket isn't even rectangular, that's a goddamn octagon.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Wife was built like a damn 🛑 😭 may she rest in pece

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

TIL rectangular apparently isn't a shape

[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The image isn't even of a proper rectangular-shaped box. Look at those cut corners! Dare I say "shaped corners" even.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago

What is something called if it's shaped with a hinged lid or rectangular with a detachable lid?

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Dead Jack In The Box

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

This is incorrect - it's a writer's fantasy to make a character look like a pedant.

From Merriam-Webster...

Coffin: a box or chest for burying a corpse. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffin

Casket: 1: a small chest or box (as for jewels) 2: a usually fancy coffin https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

But if you google it, you get a bunch of results from funeral homes saying the same thing this post is. I'd say the terminology used in actual practice carries more weight than Merriam-Webster.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The funny thing is, Merriam-Webster changed the way they define words in the 50s or 60s to include the way people use them in actual language rather than a static, unchanging, rigid definition. It's why you can now find definitions for things like irregardless and ain't in MW.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca -3 points 9 months ago

If I google it aliens built the pyramids as well. I think someone got the other definitions into wikipedia so it has the appearance of Truth. Or maybe wikipedia is reality now.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These are actual businesses that do this for a living saying that, not wikipedia.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not sure random businesses are the authority on the English language. If you don't like Webster then go to Oxford: casket,n. A coffin. U.S. 1849

As a regionalism it doesn't even appear under the main entries of casket.

The main entry is the same use as Webster's 1: above, a small container for valuable items.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the word they're looking for is tapered. They're wrong, (I've seen similarly tapered coffins with hinged lids, but it would have had to have been a few decades ago. Could have been a prop, on second thought, though) but I'm betting on it being one of those regional variations

[-] FarmTaco@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Did anyone else just stake that mofo? I mean hes a vampire and I wake up as hes trying to feed on me? the mental gymnastics to let that evil monster live...

[-] nnullzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Or as Morpheus drinkin a 40 calls it… a death basket.

[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I learned this from a series called "Scorpion" and a man named Toby. (there's an episode where he and a young woman get stuck in a casket, and she says she doesn't want to die in a coffin, and he corrects her, because apparently knowing what you are going to die in is pretty important for some reason?)

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