You’re absolutely right. I meant it was “acceptable” – I don’t recall hearing people judged for saying it, but that was among an immature, high school crowd. It was definitely considered offensive to use as a label, rather than an insult (which was on the same level as f*g; not acceptable, but commonplace).
I don’t think I’ve used the word once since high school. Had it been generally unacceptable back then, I wouldn’t have done so. I graduated high school in 2004, and it was at least an acceptable insult back then (though not to call a disabled person), I think. I was a jackass in high school, though, so I could be wrong.
Either way, it offends people now, so we shouldn’t say it. It’s that simple. Deliberately offending people just makes you an asshole.
She was ugly before she became a sorceress, if I remember correctly.
I can’t be pretty in real life, but I have no such restriction in video games.
It’s got a real dom/sub feel to it.
Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, “Mom, I need more AA batteries.”
I’m sad to say that it took me a minute to recognize the actual meaning.
Semicolons generally replace a comma + conjunction. So use it instead of the “and” (or “because,” “but,” etc.) and you’re good.
This makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Ah, the “human scale” fahrenheit argument.
Oh, don’t do that. I’m nobody special, and certainly no scholar. I’m just some random person on the internet who occasionally makes a coherent comment. Unless you’re in high school, you likely have a better education than me. I’m just pedantic like nobody’s business.
Chicken wire isn’t all that expensive, either.
“Semi” literally means “half.” A semi-annual event occurs every half year, i.e. twice each year. A semicircle is half of a circle; there are two to a full circle. Of this one, I am certain.
“Bi” typically means “two” or “twice.” Its usage is highly inconsistent in terms of frequency. I think its proper usage would mean “every other” (i.e. every two), but I don’t know for sure. Either way, the inconsistency of its usage makes it ambiguous.
For the most part, confusion about usage comes in with monthly or weekly events. It sounds awkward to use “semi” in these cases – honestly, who can say “semi-weekly” without sounding like a prick? – so “bi” is typically used, thus exacerbating confusion.
Of course, I sound like a prick through all of this comment, so what can I say?
I was taught that division is just inverse multiplication, and to be treated as such when it came to the order of operations (i.e. they are treated as the same type of operation). Ditto with addition and subtraction.
Temperature scale doesn’t matter in daily life, so I hate that there’s always this argument about which scale makes more sense. Knowing what a given temperature feels like is no more difficult than remembering that water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit and boils at 212.
I’m all for a system based around multiples of 10, but for temperature, even Celsius isn’t done that way, other than 0 and 100.
I have had no trouble with my Brother printer in ~7-8 years of use. Of course, laser vs inkjet is not a particularly fair comparison, but I am still never going back to HP, Canon, and the like.
I could manage just fine, provided it’s daytime and/or there’s no full moon.
I find myself skeptical of your research.
Well, that’s something I haven’t heard in a long, long time.