sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoNo one spells "lose" anymorelemmy.todayimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down113file-text
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minus-squaretquid@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoTwo others I mourn the death of, as in, it’s more often done wrongly than not, at least on the Internet: “Led” as the past tense of “lead”: I basically never see it any more. People just use “lead” for the past tense; and Singular “die.” People just use “dice” for both plural and singular. Though I occasionally see plural “die.” I hate this.
minus-squarepossumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 minutes agothe dumb led by the dumb
minus-squarebaronvonj@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agodie vs dice was dead IRL among non-TTRPG crowds long before the Internet was adopted by the masses.
Two others I mourn the death of, as in, it’s more often done wrongly than not, at least on the Internet:
“Led” as the past tense of “lead”: I basically never see it any more. People just use “lead” for the past tense; and
Singular “die.” People just use “dice” for both plural and singular. Though I occasionally see plural “die.” I hate this.
the dumb led by the dumb
die vs dice was dead IRL among non-TTRPG crowds long before the Internet was adopted by the masses.