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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pixel count in this tweet feely low.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

Numbery very small

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that count feely or numbery?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

The count of pixels is not representable with numbers.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

...is feelily low.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago

Let's improve it with AI at the cost of a few kg of polluting gases

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anglish is a form of puristic English where all French/Latin derived words (and often others) are removed from English, leaving just the germanic base. A lot of anglish words look like this

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you'd wanna copy from German, qualitative could be highworthy.
And in anglish, you would've to get rid of "number" as well. Perhaps "tally" or something related is the stand-in (from Dutch taal and german Zahl).

dollar - taler - zahl

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A really great rundown of 'Anglish' is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMA3M6b9iEY

That whole channel is a goldmine of quirks, curiosities, and facts about English in general.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Robwords is a good channel, good to see it being recommended

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

county makes more sense when paired with feely.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

even better. i wouldn't mind seeing scientific papers with the word cunty every now and then

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Also "cunty" can happen when you ignore "feely" too much.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

petition to replace "quantitative" and "qualitative" with "arithmetic" and "characteristic"

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Quantitatititative I always do a double check.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how do you pronounce that without ending up beatboxing

[–] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Theres at least 2 tits in there so just ask a man to read it for you

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Until I used spell check I wasn't even 100% sure this spelling was made up

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I think the feely people prefer the term "holistic."

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I was taught maths from a guy with a really strong London accent which resulted in both words sounding the same, approximately qua-i-a-ive. Which made the lesson tricky to follow.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do I dare ask what "touchy" is in that case? (Heisenberg says I cannot know the answer to all three.)

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If feely is qualitative, as in having an apparent attribute or non-countable comparative then touchy would be the subjective observer attributing the characteristic or determining the comparative.

In other words, touchy feely.

I'm unsure whether touchy and the objective observer would be different, though the objective observer may be called, "county"

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comment should win Lemmy for the day:-).

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Awww shucks! 🥰

[–] Rexiose@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And we go down the road to Stupidity

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Dumbitative.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Doubleplus ungood

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Fed to resume an approach of numbery simpling

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

feely

Reactionary anti-science in action.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

More like numbery and talky