They should’ve checked this from the authority himself: Gary Busey.
Never eat shredded wheat
NESW
Not Safe Entering Work.
Never Eat Wheat Shredders.
Not Everyone Wants Sausage
Damn right. Wheat shredders are important to the economy.
I remember never eat soggy waffles
Literally is literally not literally except when it literally is literally.
It takes less time to Google that or ask a device, than to post that disinfo
Disinfo gets engagement though.
Lol, imagine if “sports” was part of the origin story of news as a concept.
Byzantine politics did have political parties and professional sports teams as literally the same thing, so it’s not completely insane as a concept.
Also weather wasn’t part of news (as in published news) at first, unless they were reporting what it was currently doing right now, because it predated forecasting by about 300 years.
Oh now, we’ve been predicting the weather far longer than you imagine. We just haven’t been very good at it until fairly recently.
I take issue with sports being in headline news practically every day, or multiple days per week at least.
I have nothing against people enjoying sports, but it’s a hobby like any other, which I think is unreasonably thrust upon everyone else.
Where is the eSports news, or competitive dancing, woodworking news, or as I’m sure we can all agree on Lemmy, what about my old electronic gadget of the week news?
When I had The Guardian app, it was quite annoying that sports was lumped in with the push notifications for actual news.
I’m just saying sports news ought to be opt-in like any other hobby.
I agree. I can’t stand that every restaurant or bar has to have a TV or 20 that are all tuned to talking heads blowing hot air over what sports guy #876,914 did last night, or what sports guy #1,456,888 will do tomorrow night.
Even when it’s live sports, the broadcast is still more commercials than game, every square inch of the playing area is plastered with ads, plus the ads that are on the overlay, plus this instant replay is brought to you by A1 Hemorrhoid cream, from the Mega-Car Savings Plus Center, at beautiful Jack the Ambulance Chaser Stadium: “When you drive drunk, call Jack to blame on the innocent™!”
Oh but haven’t you heard? It’s vital to your career and social life that you pick a sportsball team. Else what ever will you answer when someone asks 😯???
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
what were they thinking???
How many innings are in a football game?
I’m gonna sound like an asshole, but that stuff isn’t in there because the people reading newspapers don’t care about those things
I should specify, it’s in the context of tv news and other headline notifications in news apps, or front page.
I don’t read print newspapers, and have nothing against sports being covered in any news org, as long as it’s not put front and centre where you can’t escape it haha
In Australia they’ve started doing horoscopes as part of the evening news. I’m not joking.
N.O. (Negative Order)
Not Optional.
johN Oliver
I always assumed it was news as plural. Here’s a list of new’s. This is new, that is new.
Might as well call it Olds then, these days, considering how repetitious it all is.
It’s not only okay not to pluralize with an apostrophe, ever, but as a bonus it makes what you wrote into English.
It is, and I hate it
I’m pretty sure this is the actual etymology of news.
People asking each other “what new things?” becomes “what news”, as well as usage like “that information is new to me” becoming “that is news to me”
No actually means “noteworthy observation” so it’s nice to get that validation.
From the Etymonline website:
news (n.) late 14c., “new things,” plural of new (n.) “new thing” (see new (adj.)); after French nouvelles, which was used in Bible translations to render Medieval Latin nova (neuter plural) “news,” literally “new things.”
The English word was construed as singular at least from the 1560s, but it sometimes still was regarded as plural 17c.-19c. The odd and doubtful construction probably accounts for the absurd folk-etymology (attested by 1640 but originally, and in 18c. usually, in jest-books) that claims it to be an abbreviation of north east south west, as though “information from all quarters of the compass.”
The meaning “tidings, intelligence of something that has lately taken place” is from early 15c. The meaning “radio or television program presenting current events” is from 1923. Bad news in the extended sense of “unpleasant person or situation” is from 1926. Expression no news, good news can be traced to 1640s. Expression news to me “something I did not know” is from 1889.
Thank you! Their reply was funny, but it would have been helpful to have at least the basic definition there too if they’re going to respond to that person lol
I’m surprised. Merriam-Webster is usually the Urban Dictionary of print dictionaries. I’d have more expected them to change their definition because “muh common usage.”
Hacks. OED or death.
I love that there are strong opinions like this out there for dictionaries.
You’ve convinced me. I’m ride or die for OED now too.
Hopefully you’re an “Oxford comma, ride or die”, too.
Of course! I’d have thought that went without saying. I’m not a barbarian.
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I
recognize Missourigive up my Oxford comma.Oooo! Oooo!
I once worked with a guy from Missouri who said, “you know that little stub that sticks down into Arkansas? If we cut that off and gave it to Arkansas, it’d raise the average IQ of both states by 10 points.”
Always thought it was funny, but never knew if he was joking.
Oxford comma, ride, or die
I do like that vampire weekend song.
Anyone have the definition of OED?
It’s the Oxford English Dictionary
the gold standard lexicon
Well, you and I were already basically besties, weren’t we @The_Picard_Maneuver?
I never really thought about choosing a side, but I am a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma. I guess now I know which side I’m on. Let’s fucking go
Oh, extra points for the Oxford comma, too. That automatically grants you Pope status.
There’s dozens of us!
I once read an article praising the 1913 edition of the Webster’s dictionary and I have been using it ever since (in the form of GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English). That with etymonline makes the reading experience quite pleasant.
Webster’s still had morals in 1913. I wouldn’t shun a 1913 edition.
etymology has nothing to do with common usage.
also common usage is what defines words; that has nothing to do with MW. that’s how language works. i can’t believe there are still prescriptionists in this century.
it’s the opposite of olds
As I remember olds is short for: Offhand Lewd Developments and Summaries
NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH
At least that’s what they taught us in journalism school
Fun fact they were going to name compasses NEWS but the name was already taken
That’s news to me!
Actually it’s Never Eat While Shitting
Oops. Should I not have done that? I mean if anyone had told me that sort of thing is frowned upon I never would’ve…
They’re joking. You should actually always eat while shitting and shit while eating. No exceptions.
That’s what the nice shelf is for on the toilet
Where else are you supposed to put your comic book and chocolate milk?
Beats me
My housemate at university used to eat a bowl of cereal while on the toilet in the morning. We referred to it as “the circle of life”.
I’d be mad as fuck lmao. You wanna talk about someone pissing in your cheerios, I hope you eat fast.
Should that mean that the 'human centipede ’ was just a demonstration of maximal efficiency?
Never eat skunks weiners, actually.
NESW
Not Everyone Wins Sayings
Have it your way. Never Eat Weiners of Skunks
That doesn’t even make sense, who would refer to cardinal directions in that order?
The Catholic Church says hi.:-P
Isn’t it forehead chest, shoulder shoulder? So NSEW?
ah yes, the forehead, that points north.
I was thinking that chest counted as middle so thus didn’t count here? But yeah then South kinda didn’t fit in at all… this seems to be not the most well-thought-out comment I’ve made:-P.
The Catholic Church says hi ;-P
Oh. Then it makes sense that South is the final objective.
Not to be confused with the final solution, which was more Protestant.
I think they do north south east west.
Idk if all the people in this comment section are joking, it means things that are new. New information about the world.
Of course we all know that “news” stands for Never EVER Work Safe.
Isnt that Amazon warehouse motto?
Yes, but they got it from earlier companies, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
The movie dramatisation of the triangle factory showed the awful conditions. Trying to make everyone clock out while the building was burning down around them. Madness.
Plural for “new” was my presumption as well. That means a news article can actually be called a “new”.
