Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@arielmt text editors that you launch from the command line generally make you name the file first, but they don't have Auto saving.

The lack of autosaving in these programs is such a rediculous oversight

snooze...

@intherain in linguistics, the criteria for "legitimate word" is just "do a certain number of people use it"

Linguists describe how the grammar rules work, rather than prescribe how they should work.

@Terrana oh no!

@Doggo Mary Sue is exactly it – Moffat's Doctor is never in genuine peril, and he's always good, and he's better and more moral than everyone around, and he's a badass, and he can do things that are basically just arbitrarily magical

@arielmt @maple I like , but I'm not sure if it'll be clear that it's an emoji picker, so maybe one of the others?

@Lucariwhoa@snouts.online feeling like a disappointment is really rough, I'm sorry lizzie

*offers gentle hugs*

@catgirl ::<

*offers very calm hugs*

"would of", on the other hand, is a compound – you cannot divide it into individual words, because you can't say "I of done it"

but you* CAN say "I would of done it"

so we have this divergence where a formerly derivable phrase is becoming a compound!

*"you" means "a speaker who considers this grammatically valid"

I've noticed an "error" that some local people make when writing messages: a few people have been writing "would of" instead of "would've"

At first, my Editor brain wanted to correct them, but then my linguistics brain took over – this is really interesting!

"would have" has a derivable meaning – each word stands alone, and you can easily figure it out:

"I have done it"
"I would have done it"

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@g oh no

And then there's the interstellar organisation dedicated to killing The Doctor.

Over and over again, Moffat makes the Doctor this mythical figure, that can never be defeated. And it takes all the fun and adventure out of it – I don't want an ultra-important person, I want to see a Doctor who goes on adventures, who follows where whimsy takes them, and who ends up saving people in distress.

But Moffat treats The Doctor as though they're a God.

One of the major gripes I have with Moffat's writing of Doctor Who (approx. 2010–2017) is that the Doctor is portrayed as being the most important person in the universe.

The speech from "The Pandorica Opens" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa74e8oAvIM ) is the doctor talking about how special he is.

Then there's the question ( https://youtu.be/lGDC0n89nhA?t=1m39s ). "The oldest question in the universe, and the one that must never be answered".... is "Doctor Who?"

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@trashyfins 🧀 🦈

one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=557533618

the other: https://store.steampowered.com/app/519860/DUSK/