Comments by "Jovet" (@jovetj) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. And a general distraction from getting work done. You can sure admiral their can-dew spewit, though.
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  2. “What is truth, but a judgment, a perception, of the mind?”
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  3. Modern music engraving is so much more complicated than people would guess.... given how easy it is to understand, overall.
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  4.  @boxsterman77  There are many attempts at refinement and replacement out there. But I don't believe any of them have the level of elegance that standard notional already has.
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  5. I don't think that's much of a changing of meaning. People have long had a tendency to especially honor or worship "cute" things.
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  6. The Bible was the first book ever printed on the printing press (though, not in English). I am a bit surprised Rob did not mention that.
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  7. Just like jealous often used for envious. 😥
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  8. We tried. — the United States
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  9. I can see a few issues like this. For one, I don't agree or "like" watering down all the vowel pronunciations to schwa. I pronounce pencil as "PĔN-sĭl". The word's spelling makes sense to me! Second, a single dot and a tittle are going to fight on the letter i. I noticed Rob showed two dots over the i for distinction, but then it looses its meaning (e.g. naïve). So, I don't think a dot would work.
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  10. Really interesting (and, of course, well done!) video, Rob! 🤗
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  11.  @topherthe11th23  “You can put something in italics and enclose it in quotation-marks, and that doesn't give it more prestige or legitimacy.” Well, most people call that a quotation. You didn't have to like it. “Religion is the idea that there are no facts, and that what is to be believed is what God TELLS us to believe.” This is FALSE, just for your information. “Religious people believe that God's authority isn't accountable to true/false distinctions. They make God into a SUBSTITUTE for Truth.” This is vapid nonsense, for your information. Not all religions are created equal, either. You may be a pragmatist, but to a skeptic there is no such thing as 100% firm, knowable truth. Any and all of our perceptions or beliefs are not reliable.
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  12.  @001variation  A lot of math around it makes a lot of sense, if you want to call that evidence. QUESTION EVERYTHING!
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  13. So are they.
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  14. Good on her!!
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  15. Yes. This is why we should spend much more time listening and empathizing with others, versus blatantly criticizing or condemning them. There may be about eight billion of us, but we really are all in this [life] together!
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  16. It's ignorance. Sheer ignorance. Mr. Rob has already done a great video on such mistakes such as you describe. Naturally, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head this moment...
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  17. My favorite Spanish word is canadiense. (For those that cannot speak Spanish, it's pronounced "kăhn-ăh-dēe-ĔN-sāy".)
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  18. 1:00 The antlers tell me she's not a follower of God, rather the opposite...
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  19. And if you messed up you had to start all over.
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  20.  @nawark4726  I do believe that the OP's point is that isn't what the word truth is supposed to mean. An actual truth is something that is objectively true for everyone and everything. A so-called "personal truth" is a belief.
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  21. Oh, so true! I've noticed this, too. I tend to complain about fake computer narration voices in YouTube videos, and other people call them "AI voices" when they have nothing whatsoever to do with artificial intelligence. Some people are just not interested in the details. I'll side with Peter—the details matter so we can communicate with each other effectively. Unfortunately, languages evolve from use and misuse, and we cannot arrest that.
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  22.  @JosephDunniganBB  Lookin' good, too!
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  23. 11:08 That isn't what racism is.
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  24. The "far-rightness" of Nazism is petty debatable.
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  25. All of us watching can spread the word. (Get it?? GET IT???)
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  26.  @oldoneeye7516  I'm not the one stereotyping hundreds of thousands of people. Just calling you out as I see you.
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  27.  @001variation  String theory (M theory) can make predictions. Right now those predictions are theoretically mathematical, but they won't necessarily stay that way indefinitely. Some things used to be thought impossible and today we know they're not.
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  28. I've always taken bemused to mean "confused or perplexed in an amusing, non-frustrating, laid-back fashion."
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  29.  @topherthe11th23  Oh, please. People quote others all the time, and they don't know the source. It's still a quotation. You may not know who invented the calculator you're using but it's still an invention. I'm happy for you that you've neatly packaged up religious belief or experience NOT shared or experienced by you into cute little nuggets that you can twist and discard. It must be so reassuring to believe that you have everything figured out. Do you, at least, recognize your closed mind? You talk about trusting truth proved by others but you have no faith in those others at all. I don't believe you've ever actually known or talked to a religious person. You have no idea what makes one tick. Who imposes the limits on what you can know—yourself or others? I agree with your last sentence. Thank you for admitting that the idea of truth only manifests in the imagination. I rest my proverbial case.
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  30.  @rhoharane  Fantastic statement. Agree wholeheartedly. Bravo!
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  31. 21:27 Rob! You're jealous? Don't you intend to mean envious?
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  32.  @davidgould9431  I know, I was making a little joke. Though, the imaginary and real parts can be separated... they're just not complex numbers any longer.
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  33. 0:43 The words racist and racism immediately come to my mind. I'm often annoyed by people using jealous for envious.
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  34. I'll take color over colour every day!
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  35. @RobWords 0:30 Unbelievably cold? I don't want to hear it! It's currently –15°F (–26°C) where I am, and the wind chill has been –20-something to –36°F (–38°C) depending upon whom you ask. BIG cold spell hitting the USA right now! BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
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  36. Do you pronounce the digraph th as two, separate sounds? (The Irish do.)
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  37. Awesome video, Rob! I learned a lot!!
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  38.  @frankm.2850  Your apparent narcissism and bigotry are pretty backwards, too, if you think about it.
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  39. 12:55 No more, no fewer!
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  40. I guess the way it just rolls off of the tongue!
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  41. Thank you Mr. Rob. This video helps me repose and becalm. It's a great unlax for us grammar nerds.
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  42.  @RobWords  This isn't a topic I would have considered for your channel, but it definitely fit right in! Bravo and thank you!
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  43. “Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H??”
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  44.  @bleesev2  Also very good points! It's reassuring that there are actually thoughtful people in a off-the-cuff discussion like this, versus bitter old "wise" men. It's not like these types of things have not been discussed and explored since man grew a brain, and it's not gonna be solved here, either.
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  45. None of these are confusing.
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  46.  @derekmills5394  "Cute" and "adorable" are still just opinions. Same for "pretty" "beautiful" "voluptuous" "ugly" "uncomely" "fat" "skinny" "hairy" "loud" "quiet" "tall" "short" "sexy" and so on....
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  47. Ignorance is bliss
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  48.  @Santerim  Except ‘that’ þat and ‘this’ ðis are (should be) quite different!
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  49.  @vulpes7079  I thought I made that pretty clear. What is yours?
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  50. Looking at or even READING these books does not harm anyone. It's believing them, taking them to heart, and succumbing to the notion that they know what they're talking about that is the where the harm starts. We must not forget history, or we'll certainly be doomed to repeat it.
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  51.  @globalheartwarming  My mom had mums too. They're very pretty! 🤣
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  52.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  Everyone forget about the ☸wheel?
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  53. As an American, I "love" Welsh. It's such an odd and funny (both curious and ha-ha at the same time) language, especially compared to others like Irish and Scottish Gaelic. On that note, I also wish Manx was more of a thing these days, too, but Welsh has never been extinct. And hopefully never will be!
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  54. It's so complex, too. Languages naturally evolve, both from use in isolation and ignorance of the masses. It cannot be stopped, as reassuring as it would be to curtail it.
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  55.  @attilajuhasz2526  I'm not etymologist, but it would be interesting to study how many words are added versus how many words are altered per annum. Both are happening all the time.
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  56. You mean, Linus Type Tips?
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  57. That's just ghastly.
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  58. I don't know if the captions are auto-generated but there is an apostrophe atrocity at 5:46 with it's. 😲
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  59. I thought of another word: fresh A marketting "genius" has decided that "fresh frozen" is a thing, and it's better than something that's just "frozen" ...even though it makes no sense whatsoever.
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  60.  @unpopular_theories  Now, five months later, the tide has completely turned, of course... and it's hot and very humid outside.
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  61. This really gets into splitting hairs. I can say annoyed as an•noyed pretty easily. Time has glossed those together, but marry, Mary, and merry may sound almost the same but not exactly the same. a and e are definitely different vowels for me.
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  62. When I was taught English back in my youth, we were taught "long" and "short" forms of all the vowels. Our teacher(s) wrote the long forms with a macron and short forms with a breve. It's stuck with me all these years later.
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  63. 18:14 It's a bit unfortunate what your word "çum" looks like... I thought you didn't like the /s/ sound relevant in other languages for that one? :confused:
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  64. 11:18 That was satisfying, Rob!
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  65. People and living beings do NOT have a gender... but languages do!
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  66. Living beings don't have a gender. They have a sex.
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  67. That snarky G is rubbing off on him!
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  68. Rob, you can't rate your own inventions. LOL! Nice video!
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  69. 8:10 Greek wakes up and raises its hand...
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  70.  @michaelrichter9427  Oh?
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  71. I vote NO on diacritical marks on letters in English. No cedillas, please! For /sh/ instead, try its IPA form: ʃ (or, even better, maybe, chop off its descender at the baseline... just don't call that a long S! haha)
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  72.  @topherthe11th23  “Someone can imagine fire being hot. That doesn't mean that it's not objectively true that fire is hot.” What is objectively hot? Is it 20 degrees? 200 degrees? 2000 degrees? There's no such thing as "objectively hot." Perhaps the Planck temperature is objectively hot? “I talk to religious people frequently, and I find what they say appalling.” Uh huh. Perhaps I should "talk to" the same "religious" people you do... I don't find people's beliefs appalling merely because they are religious people. I'm intrigued by your feeling threatened by the beliefs (or truths!) of others. “You're that person who believes that if a tree falls in an empty forest it doesn't vibrate the gas-particles in the air near its surfaces (i.e. "make a noise"), who can't differentiate between a noise and some being hearing the noise.” ”The vast majority of people don't have a problem with the idea that something can happen while nobody knows that it happened. Your response will be "then how do you KNOW it happened?"” Poppycock. My response is what difference does it make? “You seem to be much about the idea that if humans can't reliably know what is true, then truth doesn't exist.” My belief is that the human perception of (what we call) reality is not necessarily reality. It's challenging to be sure of absolute truth if one can't be absolutely sure of reality. A truth I'd like to believe is real is that 2+2=4. We can derive a proof of that. But, the very fine line between reality and truth is murky. Part of the human experience is the quest to understand that line. “That doesn't mean that the only things that exist are human perceptions, and it doesn't mean that the things being unreliably perceived don't have an existence independent of the mind perceiving them.” Are you sure about that? The only thing any human knows about the environment (or reality) is what he perceives or reasons from those perceptions. That's the whole point of this discussion: how does a person perceive truth? What can the word truly mean beyond the human experience? Are the two separable? Hearing voices does not mean someone nearby is actually talking to you. But for the person hearing them, it can be difficult or impossible to tell the difference. What is the truth about the voices if two people hear them but not a third? If our reality is some kind of simulation as some have proposed, does that make it real or not real? (These are all rhetorical questions. You are not expected nor equipped to answer them.)
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  73.  @jacksonhorrocks4281  Now you're getting it. Practice bending that fork!
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  74. 🐮Oeuuuuuuuuuuuve 🐄
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  75. 18:28 "followed by" ? Are English and American usage of this confused? "Q follows J" or "J precedes Q" but "Q followed by J" is wrong if J is ahead of Q.
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  76. They is not an appropriate pronoun for a lone person. Ever. Stop this madness, you insane people!
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  77.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  No, it is not. The correct pronoun is he unless you know the object of the pronoun to be female, in which it's her.
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  78.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  Just because some Leftist twit edits the dictionary doesn't mean that 1) the language is magically changed, and 2) that particular dictionary is more correct than any other.
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  79.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  Yes, do send more personal attacks my way. It makes your argument that much more robust and convincing. The "they" trend you speak of is a very new phenomenon and is an artificial devolution of English. It's sort-of like when the plural "you" was dropped from English... the language got a little less precise that day. I am glad that English today doesn't have genders, but people and pronouns do because that's the scientific basis of our existence.
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  80.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  I haven't called you a nitwit. Are you saying I should? That isn't irony. Shakespeare wrote for entertainment, not as the archetype of the English language. "y'all" is an unofficial contraction of "you all", so that's also not the same as plural you. And you question my self-awareness? LOL You're silly.
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  81. Are you taking claim to be the Leftist twit that decided gender is "a thing" and that it's "fluid" and that "one can pick 'their' pronouns"??
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  82. This is pretty neat. I made my own alphabet a long time ago, but I admit it wasn't this elegant. That doesn't mean I can't think of some suggestions, though. The resemblance of 𐑑 to the numeral one is unfortunate, for example.
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  83. 14:02 I find that chart there very interesting. Wasn't Manx technically extinct at one point? And the only reason it's around today is that some people studied and learned it after the fact? But that some of its pronunciation and such may have died with the last native speaker before? That's quite a rebound if Manx is no longer in the 🔴red category.
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  84. @ I did write tried, not accomplished 😖😏
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  85. You could rename W as wynn.
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  86. Amazing video, Rob! ❤
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  87. The start of this video was really painful. LOL
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  88. English is easy to spot because of '
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  89.  @joeware  Yeah, contrary to the marketing hype, there is no such thing as "the cloud". If you mean "a server somewhere" then just state that.
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  90. I think it's best to always emphasize that all of this sounds great (pun intended?) but it's still very theoretical.
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  91. Does you wife know you are "Hardcore Thorn" and are chanelling Golem?
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  92. Woof! @ 7:28 Great video, Rob!
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  93. What about complex numbers? :ducks:
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  94. 12:45 Not an "upside down e"... it's a turned e!
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  95. "Grammatical gender" is redundant.
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  96. 10:40 One of my biggest pet peeves... when people do not respond logically. Your example there is pretty good, but I do say there is no ambiguity. If you are agreeing with what the person stated/asked, you should respond YES. If you're disagreeing, you should respond NO.
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  97. But not eth??
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  98.  @futakisser  When someone tells you who they are, you should listen.
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  99.  @futakisser  The person wearing them. Pretty basic symbol of the occult. The "humans are just basal animals" motivation.
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  100. The sound effect in this video is better than the word. Can we just use that as the word?
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  101. 13:55 I do wish English had a plural form of you in common use. I don't miss ye/thee, but maybe yous would be good. I dunno.
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  102. It's actually self-centered... 😉
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  103. 1:00 Not just dumb, but Northern Ireland is British, so there's your loophole. 😁
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  104. It's not possible to adapt the English language for consistent spelling by pronunciation across different dialects/accents. The fact that different dialects pronounce words differently means they would have to be spelled differently. Some sort of trade-off has to be done.
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  105. 16:18 To me, backwards mean mean "in reverse" or "going backwards," but arselong definitely means "going forward (in context) while turned around"
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  106. 17:15 I believe you meant "two dots following two dashes" 😲
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  107. Why'd you change the title?
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  108. The apostrophe had better be in this list!
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  109. "Eggcorns" are definitely borne out of ignorance. Ignorance isn't the same stupidity—ignorance can be cured!
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  110. What about degrees of being pregnant?
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  111.  @karlfimm  I like exclusive or even sui generis. I'd rather English come up with a plural form of you first, though.
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  112.  @farmerjohn6192  I'm well aware that "you" is plural. It just also happens to be the singular. Thee is an archaic equivalent of you, but thy is an archaic form of yours. I don't understand your point.
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