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@clayote@cybre.space i think most of them actually used ƒ, the florin sign, which was in the Mac OS Roman character set for some reason

“english should bring back long S” is not a hill i would die on but ok

@witchfynder_finder the thing about hereditary nobility is that you can just say “i’m not doing that” and nobody can take your nobility away

it was by this professor and we had this big long conversation about queer identity in rural washington and then at the end of it i was like “yeah but maybe you should focus less on liberal identitarian politics and instead be asking more about queer practices and experiences or the lack thereof; the difficulty out here is not in being gay but in doing gay things”

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zelda fanfiction writers really need a healthy dose of "if it sucks… hit da bricks"

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maybe zelda, a teenager who has literally never shown any interest in politics, should simply not be put in charge of everything

the ability of cats to distinguish "noises which sound like me" from "people noises"

@aescling "assume that" is just a long form of "assume"; cf. "assume that it be the case that"

@aescling or “assume it be the case that” etc

plain “it be that” operates pretty much entirely to create the subjunctive mood with no trimmings and i think most english speakers today would just drop it if it didn't have anything else to add

@aescling my guess is that “assume the arrangement be [such] that” is more common than a plain “it” but

@aescling if the usage is grammatical and you made it then it is attested by you :P

being horny for daisy is not QUITE enough to get me to buy a mario sports game but it's close

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