Silentiea

@Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can the soldier knead anything if he’s made of lead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly the “reasons” just boil down to etymology. We spell things the way the languages we stole them from spelled them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is where I find cucumber?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Close is way closer to clothes than it is to lose. And close is more like gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s the etymology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically the After the End variant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the etymology?