To be fair to him, he acknowledges that dwarfs would be the accepted version and justifies it by saying that if we talked about dwarfs or dwarves more often in regular English, we might have had a nonstandard plural for them as we do with many other common subjects. Elves also pre-dates him significantly, though I don’t doubt that he was a significant factor in it becoming the standard version. It seems there are even some examples of singular elve
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Hah, my own instance doesn’t show that. It’s a little surprise for me when someone mentions it
It was! I now know that catgrass is a separate thing, I thought it was just another name for catnip
My mother planted some of that in our garden when I was young. Literally the next day the entire plant was gone and the cat was sprawled out on the grass baked out of his tiny mind
And the brand-new account “WhiteIsraelis” isn’t trolling!
Soup and bread is genuinely great if you have them available and don’t want to put effort into cooking. It’s the right kind of simple and hearty thing that helps when you feel run down
If you make an exception for that, why not for any other important cause? And then you just have a news community with weird rules about the format of posts
I get that it’s an ad with a good message, but this is absolutely still just straight up posting an ad
These are probably him giving bribes to others, right? He gets to essentially anonymously give someone money without having to actually spend any of his own money
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cats@lemmy.world•Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?
3·11 days agoMy hand is covered in little scars and I have no regrets
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Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•What If a Solar Panel Could Make Power From Both Sun and Rain?
0·19 days agoThis is correct, although it should be noted that the power generation side of this is just a kind of cool incidental thing. The main purpose of the coating is to protect the solar cells
It makes him into a little speech bubble
I think the idea is that legality is supposed to approximate morality here, right? Like legal wars are supposed to be reasonably justified ones. Whether or not that actually works can be debated, but it is a relevant distinction
For those who are, like me, confused about how the cat could belong to a man who died an entire human lifetime ago: the museum houses descendants of Hemingway’s childhood cat (and a bunch of other cats too). The website has a page about them that includes pictures of a few https://www.hemingwayhome.com/our-cats
Presumably when he wakes up again, so it might be a while
Those probably won’t be counted if the number is ChatGPT users rather than LLM or genAI users. They’re a whole separate bunch of obnoxiousness instead!



I HAVE PERCEIVED YOUR CAT
HE’S CUTE