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FreudianSlippers posted:I've seen a lot...of old people...who write like...this... presumably because they...only recently began using...the internet...and hadn't written or read anything...since leaving school... decades ago... and just don't know... how anything works... Apparently, to an oldie, normal sentences are too official looking and the ellipses are an attempt to convey a more relaxed tone. A younger person would probably use a exclamation point to do the same.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I could sing you into a bog. 🖕😎🖕
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Chiming in late to the ADD/ADHD discussion but as someone who was diagnosed as a kid with severe ADHD, be forewarned that while medication can manage symptoms, for the majority of us it is not going to ever go away. For better or for worse, this is who you are. You have to learn to cope with it, but also how to try and direct it to your advantage- for example, if I realize on a particular day that I'm successfully hyperfocusing on something, I will drop nearly everything to make sure that train of thought and productivity is not interrupted. Obviously not every job or topic or schedule is conducive to that, but if you can make it work then that one day of hard work can make up for a week of distractions and idling. I've noticed that my writing style tends to include a lot of run-on sentences and interjections in parentheses (because it reflects the sporadic and tangential nature of my thinking, i.e. "I gotta get this thought down before I forget about it") and it takes quite a while to try and train that instinct out.
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+2 on it doesn't change YOU. They just change the way chemicals affect you, including the ones that gently caress you up "in a society." +3 on using hyperfocus for good; just be aware of your time limits. Putting automatic setting atomic (radio) clocks EVERYWHERE in the house helped me keep track of time. You gotta do the whole thing and I am very lucky to have a support network in my wife and friends. Things were worse barely getting by in my twenties, but my mom taught me to loving write so I bullshitted and tested my way into something resembling success; thing was sometimes it does suck to know that perhaps stigma and denial kept me from getting medication, to treat a condition that causes me to act impulsively, which got me in trouble at school... Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 03:43 on May 17, 2021 |
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May 17, 2021 03:40
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Luneshot posted:I've noticed that my writing style tends to include a lot of run-on sentences and interjections in parentheses (because it reflects the sporadic and tangential nature of my thinking, i.e. "I gotta get this thought down before I forget about it") and it takes quite a while to try and train that instinct out. Ugh I do this so bad.
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Wasabi the J posted:+2 on it doesn't change YOU. They just change the way chemicals affect you, including the ones that gently caress you up "in a society." 
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May 17, 2021 19:19
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Luneshot posted:I've noticed that my writing style tends to include a lot of run-on sentences and interjections in parentheses (because it reflects the sporadic and tangential nature of my thinking, i.e. "I gotta get this thought down before I forget about it") and it takes quite a while to try and train that instinct out. yo
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May 17, 2021 21:57
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I was also diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and was a "smart kid" who failed in school a lot.
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Luneshot posted:I've noticed that my writing style tends to include a lot of run-on sentences and interjections in parentheses (because it reflects the sporadic and tangential nature of my thinking, i.e. "I gotta get this thought down before I forget about it") and it takes quite a while to try and train that instinct out. obligatory dragging this back out from the adhd thread in e/n https://twitter.com/GeraintWorks/status/1383745091114717194
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May 19, 2021 14:25
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When I graduated from college people told me there was no future in the Humanities, but fortunately for me nobody knows how to write anymore so if you're a halfway decent editor you can make a good career out of it.
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Turpitude II posted:obligatory dragging this back out from the adhd thread in e/n Hmmm that first picture is precisely my writing style and I'm choosing to attach no significance to that. I can edit myself to sound like anyone though exquisite tea posted:When I graduated from college people told me there was no future in the Humanities, but fortunately for me nobody knows how to write anymore so if you're a halfway decent editor you can make a good career out of it. Are you sure they weren't saying there's No Future For Humanity?
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May 19, 2021 19:32
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exquisite tea posted:When I graduated from college people told me there was no future in the Humanities, but fortunately for me nobody knows how to write anymore so if you're a halfway decent editor you can make a good career out of it. The sheer amount of piss-poor copy I see come across my desk by "professionals" is staggering.
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May 19, 2021 19:50
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I didn't know that WWE has a Universal title now, can't wait for the matches against Martians or Klingons orbiting Uranus.
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Turpitude II posted:obligatory dragging this back out from the adhd thread in e/n Holy poo poo. I am 100% seen.
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I think I just figured out that in American football a "pick six" is a pass interception resulting in a touchdown.
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"Cutting corners" refers to literally going around a corner (maybe in races?) and cutting across the corner rather than following the path.
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Proteus Jones posted:Holy poo poo. I am 100% seen. *Checks my entire post history* ...aw beans.
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Shifty Nipples posted:I think I just figured out that in American football a "pick six" is a pass interception resulting in a touchdown. If your "I think" is because you aren't sure you're correct, I can confirm you are. "Pick" is a synonym for an interception, and the "six" is for the touchdown portion.
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You pick up six points when you make a touchdown. I'm a huge football fan and didn't figure that out until I saw a pick 2 happen in 2016.
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rydiafan posted:If your "I think" is because you aren't sure you're correct, I can confirm you are. "Pick" is a synonym for an interception, and the "six" is for the touchdown portion. That and I had that bad feeling of "drat I might have already posted this before". I get that feeling nearly every time I post in this thread.
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Shifty Nipples posted:That and I had that bad feeling of "drat I might have already posted this before". I get that feeling nearly every time I post in this thread. Check out page 173
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Carthag Tuek posted:Check out page 173  :???:
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What is Finn may never die
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And thus, Finland cannot be real. Q.E.D.
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"Pick six" sounds like a way to bet on one of those lottery games where they draw several numbered ping pong balls for the winning numbers.
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Shifty Nipples posted:"Pick six" sounds like a way to bet on one of those lottery games where they draw several numbered ping pong balls for the winning numbers. It is, in several states.
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This would probably be best served in a "misheard lyrics" thread. But I just figured out what it is supposed to be, so it technically fits here too. For the longest time, I thought the words to Billy Joel's Piano Man included the phrase "And the piano sounds like a carnivore..." It never made proper sense to me, and I justified it as in he had been playing so long that it all mashed together in a dull roar, much like a lion or tiger would give. But I recently figured out that the words are actually "And the piano sounds like a carnival" Which makes so much more sense.
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Captain Monkey posted:
Once again, I regret to inform you that "the number six" in Finnish is not "kuusi", it's "kuutonen". (Stuff I just realized because I haven't really thought about it before: it seems to be the diminutive form of "kuusi". The same is true for all numerals up to six. The words for the numbers eight and nine are... weird, and seven is just seven for some loving reason.)
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BrigadierSensible posted:But I recently figured out that the words are actually "And the piano sounds like a carnival" Which makes so much more sense. I always thought carnival was a lazy metaphor. Like you could have a piano/music at a carnival, it's just like saying the piano sounds like another piano.
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Annabel Pee posted:I always thought carnival was a lazy metaphor. Like you could have a piano/music at a carnival, it's just like saying the piano sounds like another piano. I love Billy but the song has some questionable imagery - "making love to his tonic and gin" is just a disgusting concept and noone has ever called a G&T a T&G. There is this interpretation tho https://twitter.com/diannaeanderson/status/1331661306487685120?s=19
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I think the gin would burn your piss-hole
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Milo and POTUS posted:I think the gin would burn your piss-hole It was always burning since the world's been turning
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I always figured it was that old-timey usage of "making love", from when it didn't mean "loving".
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Hyperlynx posted:I always figured it was that old-timey usage of "making love", from when it didn't mean "loving". Stuff like '"I saw Deborah and captain Brentley making love in the kitchen!", Somes ejaculated.' always gets a giggle out of me.
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Hyperlynx posted:I always figured it was that old-timey usage of "making love", from when it didn't mean "loving". (nixon made a joke juxtaposing the two definitions in public once to reporters but I cannot find the quote right now - that's right about when the turning point was where it fell out of use, too)
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Bread doesn't mean money; the guy was just being a huge rear end in a top hat
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BrigadierSensible posted:For the longest time, I thought the words to Billy Joel's Piano Man included the phrase "And the piano sounds like a carnivore..." Did you think the next line was "And the microphone smells like a bear"? EDIT: This works for the gay bar interpretation as well.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Once again, I regret to inform you that "the number six" in Finnish is not "kuusi", it's "kuutonen". (Stuff I just realized because I haven't really thought about it before: it seems to be the diminutive form of "kuusi". The same is true for all numerals up to six. The words for the numbers eight and nine are... weird, and seven is just seven for some loving reason.) So, if I were to ask a Finn "how many were there?"and the Finn answered "kuutonen". I know there were anywhere between 1 and 6?
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gleebster posted:So, if I were to ask a Finn "how many were there?"and the Finn answered "kuutonen". I know there were anywhere between 1 and 6?
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Hirayuki posted:I think he means that the words for each of the numbers from 1 through 6 are the diminutives for each of those numbers. Like if English generally counted "onesie, twosie, threesie..." Stop trying to make the Finnish language make sense.
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