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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 93 points 2 years ago (3 children)

singular of "dice" is "die" btw

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Sort of. “Dice” is both plural and singular, “die” is just singular. (According to both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries at any rate.)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 39 points 2 years ago

They are entitled to their wrong opinions.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We don't speak English here sir. We speak American

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aka Modern English. Not that old Legacy version.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, the American Southern dialect is believed to be closer to the English Shakespeare would have spoken than modern British accents. the same os believed to be true for the Quebec accent, as the groups that settled these areas became isolated and evolved at a slower pace than the home countries. So American is closer to the legacy version, while British is the modern one.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Actually, the American Southern dialect

Individual dialects don't really apply to this type of generalization. That's really too specific.

I mean, that's a very specific part of America. Most of America doesn't speak like the Southern states. It may be the largest specific dialect grouping (I don't care enough to look into it more than a casual search), but that doesn't mean that it encompasses a majority of America. Boston also has an extremely conspicuous dialect for instance compared to the rest of the country, but we're not talking about Boston specifically ,we're talking the entire US generally.

We don't want to go about saying that British English is wholly determined by the specific dialect around London do we? Even though that's like 14% of the entire population of England.

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago

my house mice jeff agrees

[–] timgrant@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 years ago

This is just another way to out yourself, gamer.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conversely, when you refer to a wargamer's miniatures as meeples...

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 points 2 years ago

Damnit...

Now I want to 3d print a bunch of meeples and show up to Warhammer night at my LGS.

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago

Shibboleth.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago