* checks rulebook to see if posting an image from Cats is a warnable offense *
That's odd, I can't find anything. Well, OK then, I guess you're good!
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* checks rulebook to see if posting an image from Cats is a warnable offense *
That's odd, I can't find anything. Well, OK then, I guess you're good!
would cat's be considered "serial-killers" in the animal world?
Nah, they are just "serious" bird-watchers, and bad script-writers as well as bad special effects cats.
personally, I prefer beardless Harpo Marx
Since I'm still new to homeowning. Can you just order replacement burners for electric stoves? One of my burners isn't heating up and I realized today it was because one of the contacts is corroded. Or if there's a way to repair it.
Depends on the age and brand of the stove, but yeah, you can order replacement burners fairly easily, most of the time. Check Amazon or Home Depot.
So, I was emailing my mother about a (socially distant) walk somewhere, and I was typing "I really badly need a change in scenery". And it autofilled for a second "I really badly need a change in my life."
...Autocorrect is judging me.
...Autocorrect is judging me.
Screw autofill (Gmail calls it "Smart Compose"). No machine is going to tell me what it thinks I want to say!
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Elephant shrews...
They are more closely related to Elephants than Shrews..
They are more closely related to Elephants than Shrews..
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Yeah!!, I'm w/ you.
Let us screw up ur spelling all ourselves
where is my editor, again?
The last time I used an automatic text function was about 20 years ago. I was to issue a permit for building a carp pond and the auto correct /spell check ignored the fact that I had swapped the position of two letters...
In English that's actually a good deal worse than in my native German where the carps (Karpfen) simply became donuts (Krapfen). However, the pond owner called next day, thanking me for the swift permission and asking how to correctly dispose of the used fat from deep-frying the donuts. Highly embarassing. My colleagues still tease me about it. I instantly sent him a typo-less permit but am told he framed the other one and hung it up over his sofa.
That was the very last time I used spell check and auto correct.
In English that's actually a good deal worse than in my native German where the carps (Karpfen) simply became donuts (Krapfen). However, the pond owner called next day, thanking me for the swift permission and asking how to correctly dispose of the used fat from deep-frying the donuts. Highly embarassing. My colleagues still tease me about it. I instantly sent him a typo-less permit but am told he framed the other one and hung it up over his sofa.
That was the very last time I used spell check and auto correct.
if you 'de done that here nobody would have understood it - pfannekuchenThe last time I used an automatic text function was about 20 years ago. I was to issue a permit for building a carp pond and the auto correct /spell check ignored the fact that I had swapped the position of two letters...
In English that's actually a good deal worse than in my native German where the carps (Karpfen) simply became donuts (Krapfen). However, the pond owner called next day, thanking me for the swift permission and asking how to correctly dispose of the used fat from deep-frying the donuts. Highly embarassing. My colleagues still tease me about it. I instantly sent him a typo-less permit but am told he framed the other one and hung it up over his sofa.
That was the very last time I used spell check and auto correct.
LOL indeed 
Local dialects are something fascinating to me - there is such a huge variety: every village has its own peculiarities. But I pity the poor foreigners who have to find a path through our German dialect jungle.
Local dialects are something fascinating to me - there is such a huge variety: every village has its own peculiarities. But I pity the poor foreigners who have to find a path through our German dialect jungle.
There should be a thread about ways of interpretation and that in art (which also inclueds literature and fictional movies or series), there is always more than one "true meaning"...
Trying to negotiate a way through many nuances in Spanish is the same
It's fucking impossible
And as you say, every region, town, city has its own nuances.
It's fucking impossible
And as you say, every region, town, city has its own nuances.
it's fun, though, isn't it? I come from Upper Palatine but have been working in Lower Bavaria for 26 years now. The two provinces are neighbours but the dialect differs considerably. Funnily, when I am out in the plains, people say "oh, you come from the mountains?" and when I'm in the mountains they think I come from the plains. Nobody guesses that I come from Upper Palatine 
What about Hyraxes?Elephant shrews...
They are more closely related to Elephants than Shrews..
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i didnt know about them, cool!
Man. They are awesome! Living among the rocks across Africa and the Middle East. They look like woodchucks. But once one looks at their feet (hoof-like nails) and their lack of the huge hallmark incisors of Rodentia, one should know they aren't rodents.
Finn, Hyraxes are indeed awesome! And adorable! Everyone should look up videos of them right now. And scientists figured out a connection between them and elephants early on, I think even before Darwin and Wallace's papers on evolution, because they both have incisors in the sides of their mouths, different number of toes on their front and hind feet (which do indeed have those funny nails), and nipples in their armpits. I also find it interesting that the Bible translates hyrax as "rock badger". Makes me picture badgers made of rock!
Captain, thanks for pointing out that about elephant shrews. I had plum forgot that weird fact. It just goes to show that the broad evolutionary relationships of mammals defies all common sense.
Captain, thanks for pointing out that about elephant shrews. I had plum forgot that weird fact. It just goes to show that the broad evolutionary relationships of mammals defies all common sense.
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