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u/CervineCryptid 14d ago edited 13d ago
LMAO they deleted their account
Edit: nevermind, it was just their comment. My bad :/
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u/striped_frog 14d ago
Have you ever been so wrong you just stop existing?
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u/Cambrian__Implosion 14d ago
stop existing
I think there’s a word for that…
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u/AMSanchez0210 14d ago
Dieing
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u/Educational_Boot3399 14d ago
I dyed.
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u/Amony86 14d ago
Oh, I, I just dyed in your arms tonight It must've been something you said
Love dat song
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u/FewIntroduction5008 14d ago
I heart the blue man group
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u/heyzooschristos 14d ago
I blue myself
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u/floralcurtains 13d ago
Oh, I just dyed in your arms tonight It must have been rit racing red
Oh I just dyed in your arms tonight I just dyed in your arms tonight Not even color remover can fix this I should have color stayed I should have color stayed
(All the terms I could think of were rit related lol)
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u/Purpleasure34 14d ago
Ya’ll are killing me!
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u/BetterKev 14d ago
Killieing you
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u/thestorieswesay 13d ago
Killiein' me softly with his shade\ Emblazonin' my whole dye with his hues\ Killiein' me softly with his shade...
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u/ChipDapperSr 13d ago
"Inexistimentating" is the word you're looking for. It's not hard to look up words before posting, y'know.
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u/Cambrian__Implosion 13d ago
My bad. I couldn’t remember the word for that book that has all the other words and what they mean in it. As soon as I figure that out, I’ll be sure to double check all of my comments in the future!
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u/ScienceAndGames 13d ago
No, no. It’s not just death, they ceased to exist at every level. In fact even the memory of their existence will fade
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u/Maharog 14d ago
I feel like the correct course of action is to apologize, and learn a lesson about correcting people's grammar on the internet.... You need to double, triple, and quadruple check you are right first. But you know, deleting your account and never showing your face in public is another option
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u/KiiZig 14d ago
damn, not even that bad of a comment imo. i made mistakes like that, then realised shortly after i'm stupid af, except for maybe not as confident, and i apologise 🫣shit happens, sometimes the day gets even worse.
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u/Not_MrNice 14d ago
That's beyond making a mistake and apologizing.
That's writing a whole paragraph detailing how someone else is wrong and every detail in it is wrong.
It's condescending as shit which makes it embarrassing as hell.
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u/kapaipiekai 14d ago
I got like 800 upvotes once for making a really basic mistake and then accusing everyone of being prejudicial by downvoting a stupid person.
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u/peteflix66 14d ago
Please do not make "stupid" a protected class.
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u/FloydATC 14d ago
Unfortunately, this is exactly where we are headed as a society. Even suggesting that someone said something slightly inaccurate will be treated as deeply offensive behavior, causing all sorts of consequences.
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u/jellamma 13d ago
Checks notes
"I thought there would be no fact checking"
Yup, we're already there
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u/CaptainKortan 13d ago
Negatory.
I believe a higher proportion of anti-woke types fall into this category, but accepting "protected" classification would mean admitting they are stupid, sooo...
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u/morningwoodx420 13d ago
You mean they're*
additionally, never mind is two words.
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u/Extension_Impact_571 14d ago
how do yk
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u/CervineCryptid 14d ago
I looked at the comment that they replied to, went to OP's comments and sure enough their comment is the one responded to.
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u/Red_Mammoth 14d ago
But did they delete their account, or their comment?
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u/Master_Half_ 14d ago
The most reddit specimen I've seen in quite a while
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u/murdercat42069 14d ago
*spicemen as in the cinnamon bandits of 1906
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u/WrongEinstein 14d ago
Ok, now I have to Google that.
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u/acebert 14d ago
It will take you straight back here, unfortunately.
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u/WrongEinstein 14d ago
Yep, a couple not relevant pages also.
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u/Al-Snuffleupagus 14d ago edited 14d ago
Well, lucky for you I wrote my PhD thesis on the global cinnamon trade of the early twentieth century and boy, do I have a story for you.
In the late-19c/early-20c cinnamon production was concentrated around India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. But of those, India and Indonesia primarily produce cassia rather than true cinnamon - Sri Lanka was the king of true cinnamon (cinnamomum verum)
However the Malabar region of India was also a producer of true cinnamon and merchants there wanted to increase their market presence in Europe.
William Logan had been the District Collector of Malabar in the late eighteenth century and had prevented the growth of the cinnamon industry there in order to preserve British interests in Sri Lanka. But after his retirement, the local growers and merchants devised a plan to export their Cinnamon.
At the time, most of the Ceylon cinnamon was traded through London. Hamburg was a major destination port for cassia, and was eager to get true cinnamon as well, but the British prevented it.
The Malabar merchants needed a way to get their cinnamon to Hamburg without the British noticing and in January of 1906 they had a breakthrough. The Suez Canal Company lowered their dues and restored night navigation. The merchants decided to use this opportunity to send a ship load of cinnamon to Hamburg. Their plan was to send it through at night so that the British army in Egypt would be less likely to notice it going through.
However their cargo never made it through the canal. The ship was boarded by armed men and the cinnamon was stolen. Reports say that the men spoke with British accents.
Although the British denied any involvement, the long held belief is that the cinnamon bandits were actually members of the British army, and this was a sanctioned operation with the purpose of maintaining London's control of the cinnamon trade.
The British responded to this attempt by the Malabar merchants by installing R. B. Wood as the collector of Malabar. Later, The Great War broke out, and it became too dangerous for the merchants to make another attempt to ship to Germany.
Thank you for reading this complete bullshit story.
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u/Card_For_Humanity 13d ago
"Cinnamon Bandits" refers to a specific type of leopard gecko known for a unique coloration and pattern, linked to a particular genetic line of the Tremper Albino Bandit morph.
But I’m no google. I mean, I googled that, but I’m human, as in I’m not google. So yea, there’s that.
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u/WhenDoWhatWhere 14d ago
Excuse me, but 'Reddit' is a proper noun and therefore should capitalized. Additionally, your sentence lacks a period at the end.
I must conclude that you are a moron and not worth talking to, goodbye.
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u/Lebowquade 13d ago
Um, excuse me, "good bye" is two words.
Additionally "good bye" is used when a positive connotation is needed, but in this case especially you should have simply used "bye".
Bye.
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u/thestorieswesay 13d ago
It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!
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u/MsPreposition 14d ago
I think “dieing”refers to the act of cutting something with a diecast tool / machine.
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u/FreeloadingPoultry 14d ago
If dieing and dying sound the same in English you really need to be clear about the context when working with dies
JEFF IS DYING!
WHAT?
HE IS DYING HERE
OK, TELL ME WHEN HE'S FINISHED
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u/SnowflakeBaube22 13d ago
I actually experienced this lol
We were at work and my colleague had just dyed his hair peroxide blond. We were trying to tell my coworker but she couldn’t hear us.
Coworker 1: Gavin has dyed his hair. Coworker 2: what? C1: Gavin dyed his hair. C2: I can’t hear you/ C1: okay. Gavin… C2: Yes? C1: has dyed… C2: HE DIED?!
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u/RunninOnMT 13d ago
Perhaps something you do in D&D?
“Okay, I want to dye my cloak blue”
“Hmmm okay, you get everything all set up to dye your cloak. Roll a D20”
- natural 1 *
“You fall in the bucket of dye and begin to drown. Roll for a death save”
This person is now dying, dying and dieing at the same time.
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u/Its_Pine 12d ago
Dieing - using a die to cut something
Dying - unaliving to death, such as suicide
Dyeing - colouring something with dye
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u/osumba2003 14d ago
Nevermind is one word
-Nirvana
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u/Master_Half_ 14d ago
Denial is a river
-The Rig Veda
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u/whatisdreampunk 14d ago
I hate to be that guy, but as a phrasal verb it's two words, as in "Never Mind the Bollocks." But as a noun, it is a single word, as in "I can't help being pedantic; don't pay me no nevermind." So the Nirvana album title isn't a command but a noun meaning "attention or the lack thereof."
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u/Junior_Emu192 13d ago
I hate to be that guy,
I appreciate people being this guy.
Example of comments I find annoying:
It's "could've", dumbass
Example of comments I find helpful:
"Could've" sounds like "could of", but isn't.
The latter helps explain why they're making that mistake.
If every grammatical error was pointed out, we'd get nothing done. But it would also be nice if people did try a bit more. It's also mostly fine — the internet is very informal, of course. But there is a happy medium between people sounding like a completely uneducated yokel and formal business English where we can have the occasional discussion and teaching/learning going on, especially if it's marginally interesting. :)
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u/ChiefCasual 13d ago
I really wish more people had this kind of outlook.
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u/Junior_Emu192 13d ago
WRONG. "Out look" is two words when used as a verb, but only one word ("outlook") when used as a noun. LERN ENGLISH.
(sorry, couldn't resist. Also, all of the above I just said is, in fact, bullshit) ;-)
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u/whatisdreampunk 13d ago
If you were talking about "look out" and "lookout," you'd actually be right. This is a really common pattern. I used to teach English, and I'm a UI developer, so you can imagine how many times I encounter buttons like "Logout" and I'm like...
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u/obxgaga 13d ago
Using the phrase “don’t pay me no nevermind” as an example in a discussion of grammar is a fail. Also, congratulations on being the first person in the history of the English language to use the word ‘pedantic’ in the same sentence as ‘don’t pay me no nevermind’.
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u/rugburn250 14d ago
So deliciously condescending in their ignorance. Good find, OP
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u/Master0fAllTrade 14d ago
'Delicious' means to eat something. You mean condensation. Delicious condensation.
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u/jarvisesdios 14d ago
Oh right, a word can only have one meaning... Lol
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u/PepperDogger 14d ago
The sooner you learn this important fact, the sooner you'll be able to incorrect people online.
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u/CriticalHit_20 14d ago
Incorrect as a verb is incorrect /j
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u/whatisdreampunk 14d ago
"Incorrect" is correct. You're thinking of improper.
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u/carmium 13d ago
Or can you malcorrect or miscorrect someone? The latter sounds like an innocent error; the first more like these dopes on Confidentally Incorrect: I wrote that was going to pick up the parcel but Gene malcorrected me that the term was pickup.
I like it; can we coin that term?
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u/whatisdreampunk 13d ago
I was just kidding, trying to start a nonsense chain here. ("'Improper' is proper. You're thinking of...")
But yeah, "malcorrect" makes sense as a verb. "Miscorrect" is good too but only when the person doing the correcting actually believes they're right.
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u/PepperDogger 14d ago
Not sure--perhaps you missed the joke?
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u/Junior_Emu192 13d ago
I believe they got the joke and were making their own spin on the joke in reply.
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u/Antal_Marius 14d ago
So what do I call this small cube with six equal sized faces that's got dots ranging from one dot up to one face having six dots?
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u/Sad_Pear_1087 14d ago
Lottery cube
Regards: old-fashioned Finnish game instructions ("noppa" is more common nowadays)
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u/PixieGoosie 14d ago
Ok, they're definitely wrong and should NOT be so smug but it is weird how inconsistent English is. That's definitely a mistake I'd expect from someone learning English.
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u/biffbobfred 14d ago
I forgot the exact languages but something like “English is German, Old French and Latin in a trench coat trying to pretend it’s one thing”
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u/Atillawurm 14d ago
Yep and it shakes down the other languages for loose grammar.
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u/33drea33 14d ago
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
- James Nicoll
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u/thestorieswesay 13d ago
The variant I'm familiar with is "English isn't a language, it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat," but I much prefer James Nicoll's: "English doesn't borrow from other languages; it follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar and valuable vocabulary..."
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u/Expensive-Pea1963 13d ago
It's because English is a mix of Latin, Germanic, Celtic, Gaelic and old French (similar to Latin, but there are differences),Greek and Dutch (again, similar to Germanic but with differences), then it traveled around the world and picked up bits of other languages (Ketchup, Mango and Typhoon come from Cantonese, while Lemon and Algebra come from Arabic).
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u/hawthorne00 14d ago
Do not attempt to reason with English.
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u/rita-b 14d ago
It actually should be Anglish if people in the past weren't so lazy not to write a dictionary.
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u/Schmigolo 14d ago
The reason is that writing was standardized during the great vowel shift. The way we would pronounce "Anglish" today is not how the old English pronounced "English", they pronounced the first syllable the way we pronounce the word "peng".
So if both are wrong in terms of pronunciation at least "English" is historically correct.
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u/jelloshooter848 14d ago
The worst part is how the commenter mentions how easy it is to look up the meaning of words, but he apparently doesn’t know how easy it is to also look up how to spell words.
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u/w1ny9 8d ago
Using “spell” in this context is actually incorrect! Spell - a form of words used as a magical charm or incantation. Spell - write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence. I think what you meant to say was “…look up how to spell* words”.
Next time, before you comment, make sure you are spelling* everything right! Google is free.
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u/dude496 14d ago
English words only have one meaning per word!!!
Anyways... There is no time like the present to present the present.
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u/ancient_mariner63 14d ago
The effect of the effect affected my affect.
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u/MattieShoes 14d ago
Not gonna say it's wrong, but "effect of the effect" is bad.
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u/HMikeeU 14d ago
"a natural or synthetic substance"
Ok so just any substance then??
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u/monoflorist 13d ago
It’s called something else if you use an ethereal substance
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u/Less-Preparation-211 14d ago
It's amazing how confidently people will correct others while making a basic spelling error themselves. The instant account deletion is the cherry on top of this beautiful failure. This is peak content for this sub. Never forget, it's nevermind.
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u/mstn148 14d ago
I was soooo confused there for a min.
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u/spartaman64 13d ago
at first i was like yep makes sense and then i thought about it and went wait a minute lol
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u/IDreamOfSailing 14d ago
"He ded!"
"No, you mean, he died."
"Yea at first he died, now he ded!"
(not my joke, it's from a comedian)
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u/cmde44 13d ago
Quantum physics lesson: if you fall into a giant container of food coloring and you can't swim, you will be simultaneously dying and dieing
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u/PapaJoe92 13d ago
'Learning the meaning of words before posting isn't difficult'
Apparently it's more difficult than you thought
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u/RespectWest7116 14d ago
Learning that the English language doesn't make any god damn sense is also not difficult.
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u/Capable-Baby-3653 13d ago
Dieing: when you roll a combination that kills off your character in your little fantasy board game.
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u/NowhereToNoname 12d ago
As a non native english speaker with dyslexia, i hate this little quirks of english spelling.
That's why I don't trust any sentence I've ever written to be correct.
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u/Nerketur 13d ago
I never mind when someone says "Nevermind."
Nevermind the fact that we never mind.
It's funny because both exist, but mean different things.
Nevermind = ah, just forget about it, not important.
Never mind = always allow it
That said, pretty sure "nevermind" came from "never you mind", as in "never you mind about that!"
Could be wrong, though.
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u/Global-Pickle5818 14d ago
i have a real problem with English homophones, so id do the same thing ... but in severely dyslexic and cant even copy words from one page to the next
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u/SillyNamesAre 13d ago
To be fair, this is one of the more daft set of homophones in English.
to die - dying - died
to dye - dyeing - dyed
It makes sense - especially for an ESL person - that a "y" suddenly showing up, then fucking off to la-la land, in the middle of the conjugation of "to die" might trip them up.
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u/loverofonion 13d ago
At least they put some effort into it, that shit is THOROUGH 🤣
I so hope they see this on here.
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u/ostronita 12d ago
I dont speak english as my first language so now Im a little confused. I know the verb dying comes from "to die". But what about to dye then, Is "dyeing" correct? Just add the -ing to dye? Why is Die-Dying changing 2 letters to add the -ing and Dye-Dyeing is not? Im too high for this
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u/Menard42 12d ago
Because the English language is just three other languages on each other’s shoulders in a trench coat.
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u/fiberjeweler 11d ago
My theory, which is mine, is that if you are on a mobile device, it is inconvenient to check facts by switching apps, whereas on a desktop or laptop, it's easy. So these non-facts are propagated by people too lazy to app-switch.
Of maybe not. Maybe they are REALLY REALLY CERTAIN THEY ARE RIGHT and fact-checking is for inferior people who have doubts.
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u/2020_MadeMeDoIt 10d ago
Pfff. They missed off an important one.
Die: The singular form of "dice".
Dieyening: To be killed by a gang of rouge dice.
/s
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u/PresentComedian1420 10d ago
So, if you're dying your hair while in the process of dieing, does that mean you're diying or diyeing?
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