For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    It raises the question. The reason begs the question has become acceptable is specifically because English speakers used the term in error often enough to make it common.

    Which is to say, when the President of the United States uses the phrase …which begs the question… in a speech, or a PHD academic uses it in a thesis in 2024, it’s fine. But nineth-grade grammar teachers all across the nation cringe when they hear it.