The US Civil War eclipsed both in the number of casualties

I’m maybe misunderstanding you here, but as far as I know there were about 100 times as many people killed in WW2 as in the US Civil war. 60 odd million vs 600,000 or so.

No, but you said “why do the English pronounce” with no qualification that it’s neither the only way nor the most common way.

You’re right that it does happen, but your title implies it’s the sole or dominant pronunciation.

The definitive answer :-)

Am in UK, and yeah, I’ve definitely heard it pronounced that way, sometimes combined with a second name, eg St John-Smith = Sinjin-Smith

I think it’s a thing posh people use sometimes.

The universe is so big there must be life somewhere else

Agreed, and it’s also that it’s so old - there could well have been life billions of years before Earth had any, which died out already.

As a football ⚽ fan, I can confirm that time moves excruciatingly slowly when defending a 1 goal lead, and absurdly quickly when a goal behind.

I don’t know if this is helpful or not, but you can do this on Sync for Lemmy. As a test, I just added you as a favourite and now you appear in my Favs list alongside my chosen top communities.

However I don’t know if there’s any way to create a feed consisting of all favourited people’s posts, which would be more useful IMO than having to check each individual favourited person. Will have a go and see if I can find a way.

EDIT: Couldn’t see a way to do it unfortunately, but have started a thread on the Sync community to see if anyone knows how.

Did he reply in German that he didn’t? :-)

https://youtu.be/8cwWgxbqah0?si=cYdE2u1U28vcAWgT

That’s the spirit.

Oh god. I’m not strong enough to watch that again right now.

That’s when you double down and tell them in German that you don’t speak English. That’ll confuse 'em.

:-)

Disinterested just means that you don’t have any skin in the game, and can be impartial.

Eg, if you were in court you would want the judge to be disinterested, but you wouldn’t want them to be uninterested :-)

Well Johnson is already trying to argue that it might be illegal for anyone other than Biden to be on the ticket.

So I’ll definitely be ignoring that.

So, February then?

That’s messing with my head. But in a good way.

Read as far as “Of course, a Conservative government remains preferable to the alternative” and though, that’ll do.

So glad to be rid of them.

A whole lot of grammatical and/or punctuation-related things.

A particular bugbear is people using “disinterested” when the word they mean and should (IMO) use is “uninterested”.

I appreciate that “disinterested” has come to mean “uninterested” but since it has another, already established meaning, I wish people would use them correctly.

For what it’s worth:

• Uninterested - “that has no interest for me, I do not have interest in it.”
• Disinterested - “that may or may not have interest for me, but either way, I do not have an interest in it.”

Not an idiot - you had an issue, you asked someone with better knowledge/training/experience, you listened and acted on their advice. Sounds pretty smart to me 👍

forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the king.

Oh, well there’s a huge surprise… 🙄