Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

"Only a man-like creature can write fiction!"

what. why would you make that a part of your story? why would you want to make non-humanoid aliens incapable of creativity???

@trashyfins sleep well~

@SilviaFox@sleeping.town oh my gosh this is amazing!

Happy Hatchday to @softgoat , the loveliest and most important goat in my life ♥

In the second episode of the Mind Robbers, they had to add a scene at the last minute – the actor for Jamie was ill, and so they replaced him with a different actor. But they needed to explain why his face changed between episodes.

Luckily, the story is already set in a weird hallucinatory reality, so it's relatively easy to explain.

@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"

(cont)