People always act like I'm faking it when I don't understand something due to poor spelling or grammar. I genuinely just asked myself "wtf is a diety? Maybe it's a DND thing?" Then after a few seconds I realized what it meant. Then I questioned my whole life because I didn't know how that word is spelled, then I realized I totally did the whole time and if it were spelled correctly I would've processed the whole thing in no time and moved on. I'm not faking it. Spell shit correctly. People like me subconsciously process the world by tiny differences we have to think about to even notice properly.
Or I guess the bad spelling may be engagement bait. In which case, it worked you evil bastards.
I've just given up on a book that regularly uses the wrong words and spellings. I'm sure some people can read past stuff like that but I just get horribly confused.
Like, if both maps are "identical" why are you saying "except the road on the second one had a different shape"? So they're not identical? My brain can't deal with shit like that, man. I reread the paragraph 5 times and then had to have a lie down.
I would imagine this is a "I heard it pronounced, and assumed that's how it was spelled" situation (rather than intentional engagement bait, at least just this once). British english pronounces it the way it is spelled, closer to DAY-it-ee, while american english butchers it to pronounce it how it was misspelled, something like DEE-ye-tee.
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 100d
People always act like I'm faking it when I don't understand something due to poor spelling or grammar. I genuinely just asked myself "wtf is a diety? Maybe it's a DND thing?" Then after a few seconds I realized what it meant. Then I questioned my whole life because I didn't know how that word is spelled, then I realized I totally did the whole time and if it were spelled correctly I would've processed the whole thing in no time and moved on. I'm not faking it. Spell shit correctly. People like me subconsciously process the world by tiny differences we have to think about to even notice properly.
Or I guess the bad spelling may be engagement bait. In which case, it worked you evil bastards.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 7 pts · 100d
What the hell is A diety?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 99d
A god whose calories don't exist.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
So… not Catholicism then.
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 99d
Nope, that's Caloricism.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
No, it's the god of the Japanese parliament.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
I've just given up on a book that regularly uses the wrong words and spellings. I'm sure some people can read past stuff like that but I just get horribly confused.
Like, if both maps are "identical" why are you saying "except the road on the second one had a different shape"? So they're not identical? My brain can't deal with shit like that, man. I reread the paragraph 5 times and then had to have a lie down.
FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 99d
I would imagine this is a "I heard it pronounced, and assumed that's how it was spelled" situation (rather than intentional engagement bait, at least just this once). British english pronounces it the way it is spelled, closer to DAY-it-ee, while american english butchers it to pronounce it how it was misspelled, something like DEE-ye-tee.
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 15 pts · 100d
The second one, it's supposed to be in disguise, not blatantly obviously an eldritch horror.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 100d
So the first one is just a decoy?
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 1 pts · 99d
I'd say, it's more like bait.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 99d
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
You just reminded me of the vampire cow in Adventure Time
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 99d
The one on the right is clearly fae, not eldritch
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
Probably something like Bos primigenius, which might look like a gaur.
Ruthalas@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 99d
Asking for a friend...
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 99d
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 99d
omg i-i-it's AlReAdY hErE!!!