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  • According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.

  • I just cancelled my gas station rewards program because they moved everything to a mandatory app. I will not use your app.

  • Hey, I just wanted to thank you for being willing to bring a different opinion and a little nuance to the circlejerk here.

  • (on mobile, so sorry for any formatting weirdness)

    English teachers will only give you an arbitrary, subjective answer about whether it's a word - you want a linguist if you want an objective answer.

    Since we're dealing with two different "words" (roots) here, factory and overclocked, the first thing to look for is compound stress. Many compound words in English get initial stress: compare "blackbird" and "a black bird".

    This isn't foolproof, however. For some speakers there are compounds that don't get compound stress - some speakers say "paper towel" as expected, while others say "paper towel", but it's still a compound either way.

    So how can we actually tell that paper towel is one word? See if the first member of the potential compound (the non-head) can be modified in any way.

    For example, we know doghouse is a compound because in "a big doghouse" big can only refer to the house, and cannot refer to "the house of a big dog". Similarly, blackboard must be one word because it can take what appear to be contradictory modifiers: " a green blackboard".

    So, in the same way, paper towel and toilet paper are one word because "big paper towel" can't mean "a towel made from big paper" and "pink toilet paper" can't mean "paper for a pink toilet". (Toilet paper also gets compound stress.)

    Yet another way to test is by semantic drift (meaning shift). As mentioned earlier, blackboards don't have to be black, so the meaning of the compound doesn't perfectly correspond to the pieces of the word - instead, the fact that it's a vertical board you write on in chalk is much more important to the meaning. This is because once the pieces combine to form a new word, that new word can start to shift away from the meaning of the pieces. Again, however this process takes time, so it's not a perfect test.

    So, back to the original question: is "factory-overclocked" one word?

    Well, it doesn't get compound stress, and for me I can still say things like "it's home-factory-overclocked" to mean that it was overclocked in its home factory, so the first member can take modifiers. And, the whole thing still means what the pieces mean.

    So, in my grammar, "factory-overclocked" is two words. But for some of you "home factory overclocked" may not be possible, which would indicate that it's started to become one word for you. Everyone's grammar is different, but we can still test for these categories.

    If you instead mean by your question, "can factory and overclocked be combined with a hyphen?", however, I can't help you, because language-specific writing conventions are subjective and arbitrary, and not something that linguists usually care very much about.

  • That semantic drift happened in the 1600s. It's meant "any perfect place" for 500 years.

  • "Women are the best you'll ever be able to get a little bit of."

  • Lol, I spelled it "ov" on my spelling test.

  • If there were no surface tension there would almost definitely be no wicking action either. If it didn't evaporate super quickly, water without surface tension would probably be a giant pain in the ass to clean up.

  • Same. Sauce ruins good fries.

  • I always just go to America's Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.

  • Well we know where that got Saruman, Pippin, and Denethor.

  • Still not buying a Samsung.

  • Not sure why you're getting downvoted; the last somewhat good game Bethesda made was more than a decade ago at this point.

    Maybe people think you're insinuating that the games are bad because of the workers and not because of bonehead management?

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  • It is difficult to pull a moral out of this story

    Uh no it's fucking not. Big corpos do whatever the fuck they want and see no real consequences. That's it. That's the moral.

  • Since the article won't let me access it for "security purposes", that's not very helpful.

  • That's like learning that Charles Martinet (the voice of Mario) also voiced Paarthurnax from Skyrim.

  • I have one of those and it's cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I've actually used the "push 1 for 1 minute" feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional "timer" button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.

  • https://youtu.be/WmKireMHUfM

    TL;DW: Now that the Taliban actually has the responsibility of holding a country together, they're no longer jihadist enough to satisfy the bloodlust of the other terrorist groups in the area, so they're now being attacked as traitors to the cause. Even worse for the people of the nation, these groups have begun attacking other nations like Russia to force another incursion into Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and leave a power vacuum so the more extreme groups can take over.