Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

I think its perfectly cromulent to make up words. That's how language evolves. It's why we're not speaking in some barbaric half-French half-Angle tongue, but instead speak proper English!

If it's a popular word, others will pick it up; if it's not, it won't. My feelings about the matter can be summed up in a different English word: waltersobchakeit.

 

[dragoner]

Engineering you do it a lot too, affinity sometimes just goes nuts with the red underlining, 99% are just words it doesn't know.

 

[CleverNickName]

I think its perfectly cromulent to make up words. That's how language evolves. It's why we're not speaking in some barbaric half-French half-Angle tongue, but instead speak proper English!

It's one thing to make up a word. It's another to take a word that already exists, and then change its meaning on the fly to keep from losing an argument.

"When I said 'alabaster' I was referring to the probability curve of rolling three dice, not a type of gypsum. Why would you even mention gypsum in this conversation about dice?!"

"Because you said 'alabaster,' and alabaster is a type of gypsum. That's literally the definition."

"Well if you had read what I wrote earlier, you'd know I changed that definition to support my argument. "

 

[overgeeked]

And that dumpster fire is why you have to plus thread everything that’s not 5E.

 

[overgeeked]

The common definition of theory is closer to the scientific definition than is the usual derogatory use in the sentence, "Well that's just a theory!"

"Yeah, that's not really the cutting jibe that you think it is."

I disagree. Here’s an article.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/what-is-a-theory

I only ever hear non-science types using words like theory in that derogatory way.

“That’s just a theory.”

“So is gravity but you’re not leaving the house from the second story window.”

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

And that dumpster fire is why you have to plus thread everything that’s not 5E.

Hey now! 5e generates lots of dumpster fires, too!

 

[Scribe]

Hey now! 5e generates lots of dumpster fires, too!

Hard not to!

Anyway, I should be on PTO, am not on PTO, and the rant that will be coming later?

 

[Velderan]

 

[Ryujin]

I disagree. Here’s an article.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/what-is-a-theory

I only ever hear non-science types using words like theory in that derogatory way.

“That’s just a theory.”

“So is gravity but you’re not leaving the house from the second story window.”

I guess that I've had just enough scientific training that I differentiate the words "guess" and "theory."

 

[overgeeked]

I guess that I've had just enough scientific training that I differentiate the words "guess" and "theory."

Right. The general public has not.