Erika2rsis

joined 2 years ago
[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

All three.

Stressed /ðɛm/ — often used for emphasis or to distinguish use from mention.

Unstressed /ðəm/ — used in most situations in free variation with 'em /əm/.

(Note: 'em etymologically derives from MidEN hem, not them, but is today often treated as a form of them.)

I feel like I use 'em more often in casual speech and them in more formal or careful speech, though both forms might appear in either register in varying proportions. The rules of when I might favor the one or the other are inconsistent, I feel, though I think it has a bit to do with clarity (i.e. avoiding 'em instead of them, when 'em might be mistaken for him); and ease of articulation.

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use the following addons:

  • Media Bias/Fact Check
  • Shinigami Eyes
  • Search by Image
  • Purple Private Windows
  • 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
  • Read Aloud
  • NoScript
  • Decentraleyes
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
  • Popup Blocker (strict)
  • Redirector
  • uBlock Origin
  • User-Agent Switcher and Manager
[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

I'm saving this one, hell yeah, I love it. That chud was absolutely obsessed with Joe Rogan, acting like that guy was the new messiah, all while he went on and on about "the corrupting influence of media from America". It drove me up the wall...

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some chud I used to see regularly: "Blackrock is funding WOKE in the movies in order to change pubic opinion!!!"

Meanwhile, actual conservative billionaires:

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

It's a reference to a different Tumblr post.

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Egdiretteb's law, obviously

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Indeed, Juicy Fuck did also write Entry of the Gladiators.

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

"Either this goes well or it stops being my problem"

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Frankly, I'm not seeing any negative replies or downvotes.

I'm a US citizen myself, though I live in and am also a born citizen of Norway. So being in basically a quantum superposition between being and not being a US-American, you could imagine that I'd have a bit of a specific perspective about the country, that would draw me to using words like "Seppo".

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NZ and UK use it too. I think I first learned it from a Brit.

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The word I use most often aside from American is Seppo, which is derogatory rhyming slang (sep + -o, from septic tankYankYankee)

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, if Twitter suddenly cracking down on T&A ends up causing another X-odus to the fediverse, then it is mildly amusing that the "masto" in "Mastodon" is literally from the Ancient Greek word for "boobs".

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