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I noticed a wildly fasciated* dandelion while walking one of my dogs. Code completely glitched out.

*abnormal fusion of parts or organs, resulting in a flattened ribbon-like structure

Brownies, imo, benefit from being a little overdone to burnt. The crispy edges are the best parts.

items best served charred
bacon
popcorn
lasagna

items best served cold
ice cream
revenge

let's add corn to the charred list

A shared shard of Swiss Chard, charred?

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I try to be as generous as possible with people pronouncing words as we're all just trying to navigate increasing complexity, but the word erudite has THREE syllables only.

Yet everyone looks at this word and comes out with Airyoudite. Look at the word! A four year old can read this word. Sound it out!

Air-you-dite? Still three syllables. Airy-ou-dite? No one says it that way.
Air-you-dite-y? A new goddess.

I have a thing like that too. grammar is kind of arbitrary and capricious, and racist and classist. and language is a fluid, evolving tool of the people!!!

BUT

when people say "he and I" when they should be saying "him and me"... like "can you please give amp and I a ride to wrestling tomorrow night?" I think to myself "ok you're trying to sound like you're smart and using correct grammar, but you're wrong. you suck on multiple levels"

Me disagree with you.

That's the thing. In the abstract, I don't believe in prescriptive linguistics. Telling people how to talk and whatnot is all the adjectives you listed.

It's just that my mind automatically focuses on tiny differences like the arbitrary distinction between less and fewer, and I can't help but notice when everyone always gets it WRONG.

You have less gas but fewer people in the car. Less is for stuff you can't count. Fewer is for countable things. It's very easy but people are concerned about things like where rent is coming from and not organizing their syntax according to books.

I've never seen this rule, I've always just tried to feel my way around he less/fewer distinction.

I just provide information regarding how the language works, what you and your hippie anarchist cultural marxist friends do with that is up to you.

I appreciate knowing the rule! I got a pretty good education, but I think I missed the literal 1 day they taught grammar rules. The rest of my English classes were about finding Themes in bad novels

We spent an entire semester learning that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely by reading Macbeth..

I'm awful with good/well. Don't care, not changing.

I'll never know when to use effect vs affect... except I'm pretty sure it's "special effects" when movies trick us into forgetting how awful our lives are

and I vaguely think affect has something to do with emotions. people have tried to explain it to me, and I just shut down.

I never knew/cared about less vs fewer. and I think I'm better off not knowing. I don't need other things to make me judge people, or judge myself

"less people in the car" sounds fine to me. or better yet "less grammar rules"

oh but one thing that does make me sad, angry, and frustrated... when people say "literally" and they don't mean it. the meaning of the word has been destroyed by ignorance and stupidity. and it's a great word! and very useful! or at least it used to be. I mean it gets used more now, so maybe it's more useful now?

and I'm for the evolution of language, generally. but in this care the meaning of the word has evolved because of stupid people who don't understand what the word means, and just use it irresponsibly.

but I have to give up and accept it. and sometimes I use it the same way, cuz **** it.

good/well is a super easy one! I won't force knowledge on you though. but if you ever want to know, i'll teach you.

but you're right. it doesn't matter. and it shouldn't matter.

I'm good

I affect you.

You have an effect on me.

Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun.

That's what I'm saying. I'm aware of THOUSANDS of little things like this that constantly prompt Judgement. Usually, the Judgement is just, here is a person who doesn't read books, which is fine.

I know less and fewer and effect and affect very well.

I still struggle with who and whom. I think it's to do with what the subject of the sentence is but I'm not 100%.

Well mosey on up to Amp's Grammar Barn

Use whom only as direct object. You gave chlamydia to whom?? That's it.

For whom the bell tolls