Deconceptualist

Hey alright. I didn’t know if you just wanted something available pre-1900 or specifically a horse. If I knew how to get you the hookup on equestrian pizza I’d be happy to tell ya, but I don’t.

It’s pretty commonly delivered by bicycle in NYC.

Appeal to authority popping up again? Fry is not an expert in usage. You are ceding him credibility he has not earned.

That part was my opinion. Sorry I didn’t label it with a big red marker. You’re welcome to your own opinions.

Overall though, I think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit. This is tiresome so I’ll just leave it at that.

If you enjoy linguistics, I’m happy for that, and glad we have it in common. The minor quibbles don’t really matter. It’s been fun; take care.

We don’t use it in English. We just retain the latin plural for Latin words.

The English plural of alumnus is alumni. Yes of course it’s retained from Latin. But it’s also become a word in the English dictionary. We actively use that form in English written and spoken communication. It’s been absorbed into the language. I’ve never once heard “alumnuses”.

No, we generally don’t use the “i” ending on new words, but we could. There’s no rule against it.

You made an appeal to authority when you provided the Steven Fry video

I never claimed he was an English professor, though he’s certainly an expert when it comes to usage. I shared it because I like his point, and I think you’re a bozo for ignoring it, since it makes a strong case against proscriptivism.

But ok, if you like authority, here’s a similar point made by a PhD sociolinguist.

The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.

Sure, but we use it. We adopted those words without altering that form. You said we don’t use it in English, full stop, so I gave 13 counterexamples.

I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.

I don’t think my eyes can roll any harder.

Sure we do, on occasion anyway. Cacti, fungi, alumni, syllabi, loci, foci, radii, moduli, stimuli, uteri, papyri, nuclei, termini.

Language isn’t about being “correct”, as there’s no truly objective standard. Rather, it’s about being understood. But I guess you didn’t watch that video.

Yeah but we’re using English which doesn’t follow Greek spelling rules.

Also, this.

Yes

Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.

Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.

This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).

https://www.getbatsout.com/how-dangerous-is-bat-urine/

That big room is like someone designed a terrarium for humans without entirely knowing what humans are.

But what if I love paying 1 million dollars to license outdated software? 🤡

Because the real asshole money hoarders don’t make a big income and store their funds as wealth and are living off interest.

Still, this would be a step in the right direction and as others said, some places do it.

Yep. I’m on EndeavourOS which is about as far as you can get from Mint without going to like Slackware, LFS, or BSD. Basically every single run of pacman prompts for a reboot. I’m sure I could restart individual services or subsystems instead, but that’s not what the OS popup says.

I wish I could do this for my dad. When he was young his favorite car was a little British roadster from the 60’s (he never owned it). I can finally maybe afford one.

But he already has a BMW Z4, and his joints and balance aren’t so good anymore so he struggles to get into that. He’d have the same problems, plus nowhere to keep it unless he sold the Z4. And I’m reticent to spend the money due to what we’ll euphemistically call changes happening in the US.

I expected the punchline to be “for me to poop on”.

I appreciate that. I have a partner who is on the spectrum and has ADHD as well.

I was only joking in the pedantic style often associated (rightly or wrongly) with autistic traits. ASD is the official DSM-5 term. Of course being a diagnostic manual, that focuses only on behavioral deficits. As I understand, the DSM gets plenty of criticism because like you mention, it omits all the interesting ways folks cope or even creatively use abilities like hyperfocus for positive outcomes. But on the other hand, I’m not sure successful behavior requires any psychological treatment, so that may be unnecessary to include in the first place.

Anyway, I think this is one of many situations where simple terminology doesn’t capture the full nuance of reality. So apologies if that came across as crude.

Akshually it’s called Autism Spectrum Disorder