Some folks will never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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Cletus, the slack jawed yokel?
You wouldn't
English is three languages in a trench coat acting like one.
This must be why Data can't use contractions. Except in those episodes where he apparently can.
I would never say YOU HAVE GOT MAIL without the contracion, I would say "you have mail", and with the contraction in the shorter sentence it sounds British to say: "you've mail"
As you all know, many posts are poorly censored to confound OCR. I don't love that, but it makes sense.
Sometimes I think things have been censored, but it turns out that they were simply partially obstructed by UI elements on my phone.
For this post, I had to try to figure out how "linguist" was offensive before I discovered there's apparently now an entirely functionless line that shows up on the bottom of my screen when opening images.
'Tis.