I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

  • FederatedSaint@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Certain mispronunciations, such as when someone mispronounces “escape” as “excape,” “moot” as “mute,” “etcetera” as “excetera,” and finally “supposedly” as “supposably.”

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      3 months ago

      Supposably gets me. I’m also unnecessarily annoyed by “besides the point” and “anyways”.

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      3 months ago

      I live somewhere that all of this is common language. It drives me fucking crazy.