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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 6 days ago

Sneaky sneaky

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Sneaky sneaky

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  • @[email protected]
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    147•6 days ago

    We need to get back to pet-shaming more. It’s funny, and they don’t understand, nor do they have the faculties to have their feelings hurt by it.

    • @[email protected]
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      140•6 days ago

      • @[email protected]
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        47•6 days ago

        We’re going to need a bigger box.

        • @[email protected]
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          19•6 days ago

          Where’s my seat? Dammit

      • @[email protected]
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        20•6 days ago

        That cat is so cute.

        • @[email protected]
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          You misspelled “stupid.”

          Edit: Damn, I guess not a lot of comedians here, huh

          • @[email protected]
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            6•5 days ago

            That cat is so cute, stupid.

    • @[email protected]
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      42•6 days ago

      Not only that but more often than not, the pet has the face of “What you gonna do about it?” which makes it even funnier.

  • @[email protected]
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    35•6 days ago

    I used to think “snuck” was correct, but TIL.

    • @[email protected]
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      Never trust Merriam-Webster. I don’t know if the errors I found are fixed now, but the fact they existed in the first place is disappointing. The only trustworthy English dictionary is Oxford.

      Edit: Snuck is a US informal term, according to the backup dictionary, Collins. This dictionary is riddled with ads, but also multiple sources for alternative definitions.

      • @[email protected]
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        21•5 days ago

        Imagine being so far up your own ass you call another dialect a mistake that shouldn’t exist.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        12•5 days ago

        The Merriam Webster link didn’t say it was incorrect as the guy implied. They said it’s a correct form and gave the history.

        • bean
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          3•5 days ago

          Correct. Thats also what I read. Snuck is irregular, and came about due to common use anyway. So while it’s not correctly following ver typical rules, it’s adopted into the lexicon anyway.

          Skibidi. 🙄🙄

      • KSP Atlas
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        9•5 days ago

        Dialects exist

    • @[email protected]
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      22•6 days ago

      Sneaked feels weird ngl

      • @[email protected]
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        9•6 days ago

        Though, interestingly, it doesn’t feel weird to me for the past form, only the past participle!

    • @[email protected]
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      15•6 days ago

      There is no ‘correct’, there is only what is spoken. Snuck is perfectly acceptable.

      • @[email protected]
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        16•6 days ago

        I snuck into your mom’s house last night

        • @[email protected]
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          7•6 days ago

          Sneakt

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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            3•5 days ago

            This is the only correct form. Until this very moment I have almost always fallen on the descriptivist side of things, but this is now the prescriptivist hill I will die on.

          • @[email protected]
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            2•5 days ago

            No you sneakn’t

            • @[email protected]
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              2•5 days ago

              I would say snekn’t, but that got me banned on some other site.

        • @[email protected]
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          13•6 days ago

          mum*

          • @[email protected]
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            13•6 days ago

            Haha no, she wasn’t able to keep mum. She never can.

            • bean
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              Unexpected comment elicited a guffaw… Well done 😁😂

    • @[email protected]
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      https://youtu.be/PJVNzwTnfbk?t=60s

      • @[email protected]
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        6•6 days ago

        I really appreciate you sharing that video with me and really enjoyed watching it.

        • @[email protected]
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          3•6 days ago

          I feel so loved right now <3

    • Tomtits
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      8•6 days ago

      Spelled or spelt?

      • @[email protected]
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        13•6 days ago

        It depends whether you’re English or American. Spelt is English.

        • @[email protected]
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          Spelt is not proper English.

          Edit: I retract Collins as a trustworthy source.

          • @[email protected]
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            7•6 days ago

            Of course it is!

          • @[email protected]
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            2•5 days ago

            Are you not aware of the different forms of English? There are several differences between American English and British English, “spelled” and “spelt” being one example.

            Collins and Merriam-Webster are both American English dictionaries, and the Oxford English Dictionary is a British English dictionary.

        • @[email protected]
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          10•6 days ago

          Spelt is also a grain, a variant of wheat.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah, one of the earliest cultivars

      • @[email protected]
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        4•6 days ago

        Smelled or smelt?

        He who smelt it delt it.

        • bean
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          Smelt is a family of fishes.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        Dreamed or dreamt?

        • Tomtits
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          2•5 days ago

          Felled or felt

          • @[email protected]
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            Fucked or fuct?

      • @[email protected]
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        Burned or Burnt?

      • @[email protected]
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        Isn’t spelt, like an ocean minnow?

        • bean
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          That’s the grain with the P. It’s a family of fish, smelt.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah, I smelt it.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•5 days ago

      “snuck” is perfectly fine, as long as that’s what you’ve heard since birth. 🤷

  • Lucien [he/him]
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    Looks like kitty is along for the ride today, because I’m not taking a 2+ hour detour

    • @[email protected]
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      13•6 days ago

      Yea, but what do you do? No litter box, no food and water … also, the guy has a cat meowing at him in his work van all day.

      • @[email protected]
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        9•5 days ago

        Stop and buy supplies of course! Even most grocery stores carry disposable litter pans, or just a plastic bin, along with food. Even a paper bowl will work for water.

  • @[email protected]
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    21•6 days ago

    NTA

  • @[email protected]
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    14•6 days ago

    Holy moly proper use of the regular past tense of sneak?? I haven’t seen that on the internet ever. “I sneaked my way into the concert, but I also snuck several beers into the venue.”

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    • @[email protected]
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      Hmmmm

      My German speaking brain (as a second language, my native language is English) is interpreting “my way” and “several beers” as accusative objects, and the repeated use of “into” as clues which would make me want to use the same conjugation for both. I could see “I sneaked into the concert but I also snuck several beers in.”

    • @[email protected]
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      8•5 days ago

      Wait, English has two different verbs “to sneak”?

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, but people will look at you weird if you use sneaked in serious contexts.

        • @[email protected]
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          I mean, OC implies that “sneaked” and “snuck” have different meanings

          • @[email protected]
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            6•5 days ago

            Might be a regional thing, but in the US you only hear snuck unless the person is trying to be cutesy, like pretending to be a cat.

            • @[email protected]
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              Yeah, so far I’ve also only heard snuck.

      • @[email protected]
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        More than that. One can creep about, or flit stealthily from place to place.

        I’m sure there’s more.

        • @[email protected]
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          Nono, those are synonyms of " to sneak". He is saying that sneak has two different past tenses, depending on the meaning.

          • @[email protected]
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            Oh I understand now that I misunderstood.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        Transitive vs intransitive, I guess

        • @[email protected]
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          That would be an absolute anomaly in English, as far as I know.

          • rockerface 🇺🇦
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            Ah yes, because English is such a structured and regular language otherwise

            • @[email protected]
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              I think you conflate irregular orthography and irregular grammar or conjugation paradigms.

              Like it’s pretty regular otherwise.

  • aramis87
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    Sounds like Dad should pay more attention to his environment, and to securing his work van …

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      • @[email protected]
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        Also, have you met a cat? They basically roll a nat 20 on every goddamn stealth check when they want to.

    • @[email protected]
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      sounds like someone needs to understand I’m not going to inspect my car every god damned morning with a clipboard like some kind of an obsessed psychopath.

      • 5am - roll out of bed and 3S
      • 5:30 - make/eat breakfast
      • 5:45 - fill thermos with coffee
      • 5:55 - get in the truck and drive to the site
      • 7am - work

      my dad did the above for 40-ish years. I did it with him for about 10.

      never did we “pay attention to our environment”. know why? because we were too preoccupied with making sure we had all the shit we needed for the day. like water, food, and most importantly tools/materials.

      know what sucks? getting to a job site and realizing you forgot your one tool that’s required to work that day.

      know what doesn’t suck? bringing your cat to work by mistake. if anything, it might just be the highlight of your day because you have a truck-buddy that’s soft and fluffy and will not ask about moving a wall or bitching about how the pitch of your sewer outlet is too low.

  • @[email protected]
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    44•5 days ago

    So, you’re telling me the cat was napping? The things they’re famous for?

    Jk, I still like it.

    • @[email protected]
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      11•5 days ago

      My cats would be yelling immediately, they hate car rides.

      • @[email protected]
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        Lol mine just about throws up when I take her 5 mins to the vet. Unfortunately for her, she has to do day-long road trips once or twice a year to visit family. But after she chills out, she’s quite an easy rider. Just very anxious at the beginning haha. I love her so much 😭

      • @[email protected]
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        4•5 days ago

        That’s because whenever you put them in the car, they’re going to the cattery or the vet.

        They’re not like dogs where they might go to the park.

        Nothing good comes from car rides for cats.

      • @[email protected]
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        The difference is that you or I would be putting the cats in the car. This cat got in the vehicle, passed out, and woke up on a road trip.

  • @[email protected]
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    32•5 days ago

    I would love having a cat I can just bring with me anywhere I could bring a dog. I miss cats

  • Goldholz
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    13•5 days ago

    The letter of shame

    • @[email protected]
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      Which is just the most adorable letter

  • @[email protected]
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    6•5 days ago

    He doesn’t know what you’re doing but wants to be a part of it :>

  • @[email protected]
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    My uncle took his cat to the race track because of this 😂

  • @[email protected]
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    3•5 days ago

    2 hours later

    meow (by the way I am here)

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