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  • I guess I just think that there’s a marked difference between using collective nouns that already exist in a language and making up brand new ones whole cloth just for the sake of being clever.

    Merriam-Webster writes that most terms of venery fell out of use in the 16th century, including a “murder” for crows. It goes on to say that some of the terms in The Book of Saint Albans were “rather fanciful”, explaining that the book extended collective nouns to people of specific professions, such as a “poverty” of pipers. It concludes that for lexicographers, many of these do not satisfy criteria for entry by being “used consistently in running prose” without meriting explanation. Some terms that were listed as commonly used were “herd”, “flock”, “school”, and “swarm”.




  • And then, from somewhere deep and previously unknown, there sprang a reserve of fortitude and courage.

    Or was it resignation?

    Or fatalism?

    Or nihilism?

    Or perhaps I simply understood, from the darkest corner of my soul, that these pancakes couldn’t kill me because I was already dead…

    Folks, I have no more desire to get through the rest of my life than I did to eat those pancakes.

    But I ate them.

    And the knowledge that I can keep going when all seems lost… that’s a great thing to acquire.

    Eating thirty pancakes, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐







  • Meltdown@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldReddit tracking upvotes for mod actions
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    Reddit loves violent content, provided it has a strongly homophobic, misogynistic, theistic, or otherwise conservative element. If course, if you make the mistake of reporting violent content, then it’s up to the individual moderators of the sub posting that content to decide whether the content is actually violent (according to their own standards), or whether you’re actually just “harassing” them by reporting it.