For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    To defend myself, I’m not a native speaker and we only have a single word for both conceps. So to me these are synonyms because my language doesn’t differentiate between the two.

    Even after looking up some definitions they pretty synonymous to me.

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      English is pretty fluid and acceptable words and definitions morph with time. So in current use, they are pretty much interchangeable, but that still pisses me off. It’s a loss of nuance. It’s like we are actively dumbing down the language as if Newspeak is a good thing.

      Let me take out my cane and say,“Back in my day…”

      • Envy: You wish you had something someone else does.
      • Jealousy: You worry about losing something you have.

      Example: I jealously protect what I have, probably to an unhealthy degree. At the same time, I sure envy that person for having something I wish I had.