The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Parmandur]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

For real, though, rather and diction sometimes require .ore.or less syllables, and using goofy synonyms is, like, the only tool English gives us to achieve that nice effect.

 

[overgeeked]

You’re welcome. Honestly glad to help because you clearly hadn’t thought of it since your problem is a self-made one.

A: “I can’t do that because I have to do this!”

B: “You don’t have to do that.”

A: “How dare you!”

 

[trappedslider]

I was today years old when i got this
EDIT: So before one of your nerds corrects this. Yes, he was given the cookie AFTER the itneraction, Which in the 90s is fairly correct as cookie laws about asking weren't implemented then, so when you visited a website, you left with a cookie. Just like Neo did... and funny how after that, The Oracle always knew what Neo was up to...

 

[Mad_Jack]

Nuance?! In this economy?!

What's wrong with the old aunce?

 

[Deset Gled]

I was today years old when i got this
EDIT: So before one of your nerds corrects this. Yes, he was given the cookie AFTER the itneraction, Which in the 90s is fairly correct as cookie laws about asking weren't implemented then, so when you visited a website, you left with a cookie. Just like Neo did... and funny how after that, The Oracle always knew what Neo was up to...

 

[dragoner]

I hate mastodon

 

[BookTenTiger]

I hate mastodon

Luckily they're extinct...

Oh no!!!

 

[dragoner]

Luckily they're extinct...

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Oh no!!!

Be funnier if it were metal

 

[MarkB]

Be funnier if it were metal

Metal mastodons? Surely not.

 

[payn]

Uff dah, back to back terrible ideas. Im really glad some folks aint designers.