I only heard about it because of an article about them trying to find a French word for “e-mail”

Did that become of thing? Did it catch on?

I’m curious because in English once something has a “name” it never changes. Hell Donald trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I’m in Texas, no one is changing the name. It’s the Gulf of Mexico.

Once something is established it doesn’t change.

Did they change email into something more French? Does that work like that?

Oh and it literally worries me when people use one word to mean the exact opposite. That isn’t advancement it’s degradation.

And ten points to grifendor for the word “obfuscate “ it’s one of my favorites.

Sorry for the tripple reply. This is one of the things I get excited about.

Excellent example of how names work. It’s not about if I’m annoyed or not. If you want to get my attention you have to flap your meat together and blow air thru it this way (the meat people story if you haven’t heard that. It’s great)

I reply with classical works of the philosopher Monty python

“Is you wife a goer, know what I mean, I bet she does I bet she does”

Language has always fascinated me. Clown too. Not party but the ones who don’t talk but communicate ideas thru body language and face make up. Yes the makeup serves a practical communicative purpose.

Omg I just realized my money concept also applies to sex.

“My wife and I were slapping the banker last night, she got to keep the change”

Knock knock

Who’s there

To

To who?

It’s to whom actually.

Yes as long as what you’re saying makes sense that’s all that matters. Language is just the sound you make to communicate the idea in your head to someone else.

The opposite tho is names. I’m Michael. Not Mike. It doesn’t offended me to be called Mike but that’s not the sound your face needs to make to get my attention. It’s a different sound.

But for just talking… “I stop speak right but you can hold it, then where’s the rub?”

I actually would play around by calling “money” different things. See how weird I could get. “Bucks” fine. Doodlyfranks? In context it works just fine. You can call money anything. Since fallout I regularly say “I’m short on caps” no one’s ever questioned it.

Jesus Poland! If it’s two dudes or two women and they have matching rings… that’s probably a same sex marriage. I’ve never had a hard time recognizing a same sex marriage… unless the girl has short hair then it can be confusing.

Obligatory “technically correct, the best kind of correct”

That’s how English works. It’s usage. I think the French have a council that decides but English moves a lot faster.

I get having a pet peeve. I for one hate that ignorant means uneducated when it should be someone who is willfully ignoring. That’s just not the way it played out.

I love dictionaries and word usage. “Healthful” is a clunky word, I’m not surprised we moved to “healthy “

Edit: I just realized “helpful” sounds just fine. But if someone said to me “thanks for being so helpy today” I would be a full of seething hatred lol

“For the 23 million people of our nation, ‘return’ is not an option - this is very clear,” Mr Cho added

They rejected the one china policy. Even the one china two systems policy.

Seems like the whole country there is very vocal they don’t want to be china. And china is very much insisting they are still china.

Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

Then why aren’t they china? Why is it an issue at all? They have the option right now to be china yet they aren’t.

Instead they are their own country and china is shouting they shouldn’t be.

And you can’t claim that’s americas doing because America won’t even call it a country.

You know who’s calling it a country? They are. That’s just the way it is.

That’s why this meme exsists at all lol if ever agrees it’s china… why is there a meme? What exactly would make it funny if thinking its its own country is to rare.

Replace the last square with a whisky river and tell me how that would be joke at all? It’s only a meme because its trying to argue against a country we know is real.

They have cherry scented cocaine now? It’s about time!

I didn’t even know turtles could read field research. Regardless of how captivating it was.

But they don’t want to BE china. No one’s out here forcing them to be their own country. They don’t want to be china. Canada was pretty friendly with the United States up until trump started saying they were going to BE the United States.

That tends to piss people off.

If I remember correctly a lot of them never go off at all.

I mean seems like small potatoes compared to being charged for having a number of a lawyer on you. That happened in cop city a few years ago.

Welcome to facism.

“Will the defendant please rise and open the pack… damn death penalty. Rough luck buddy”

What’s that soup place I used to go to…. I swear every time you ordered you got whatever they felt like giving you.

I think it was called crispers? Good soup.

If a massive group of people don’t want you to be their leader maybe you shouldn’t be in charge of them. Maybe let them have someone they like.

Well joking is my defense mechanism and times are pretty rough lately.

Was it money? I bet they used their money to do it.

Let’s not trash clowns by comparing them to white nationalists. Clowns are fun and many don’t do genocides at all.

Edit: I was expecting someone to question that last part so I could mention Ronald McDonald and compare that to a genocide but no one took the bait.