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TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

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I’m sure he read “How to Maximize* Achieving and Synergy of Disruption” or something like that

  • using the wrong spelling of maximise derogatorily
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🇬🇧 English (Traditional)

🇺🇸 English (Simplified)

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And evidently:

🇳🇬 English (Magnified and Embellished)

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Gah! That’s the word I was looking for!

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The ‘kids learn english from movies’ line is just insane. Yes they learn it from movies, and music, and books, and the internet, and etc. That is how it works. A lot better than duolingo in fact (Free yourself from the terror of the owl, you have been keeping your streak for over year and you still can’t speak the language well enough to watch a movie. Streaks, progress bars, challenges, making the app sad, experience points, achievements, shit thought up by the utterly deranged).

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Pauly G is telling on himself here: what he means is that his kids learned English from movies.

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my armchair linguist ass loves this post

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The dildo of consequences rarely comes lubricated

Okay, Nigerian Twitter is something else and I am so sad I’m learning about it only after Twitter died.

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