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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Music to my ear and I wonder how much it costed them to comb through all of that.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like "I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest"

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love free English classes..

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Free education? Hell yeah brother!

[–] SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Learning is great, especially when it costed nothing!

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like OPs version better and chose to evolve the language that way.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I'm fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs

If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?

If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.

Didn't find anything ambiguous about 'costed', it works for me.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If you swim across a river, it is now a river you've swum. If you sneak into a room, you have snuck in.

Those are correct but they look and sound wrong.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

so if I understand correctly, the past participle of drag is... cabaret?

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If only a very small handful of people make the same mistake, it doesn't evolve the language, it's just a mistake, plain and simple.

I know you're just trying to make yourself feel a wee bit morally superior by saying that, but it's the complete opposite of how language evolution works

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[–] escalate8315@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, 'cost' is a regular verb in Canadian English. Infering from the lemmy.ca instance, the comment op might be a Canadian, which means the usage of 'costed' is correct.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/costed/

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I am Canadian, and I was taught Cost as past tense in school and university. I've never seen it written Costed for past tense in any government publication either.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So not only was it hateful, but it was wasteful, too. Good job, Utah.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not that I want to defend these people but, why would they want that to cost a lot? Make a lot of BS jobs?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First thing that comes to mind is republicans want government to be wasteful and useless. So they do shit like this, then blame government and regulations, then push for smaller government and ignore their own role in fucking things up.

Also, they're giving jobs to bigots, which they love.

I'm sure there's many other reasons.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is outrageous. They're not even going to attempt to investigate my report about an alien beaming into the bathroom and touching my peepee? Just for that, I'm filing 10 more complaints.

[–] Leg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On this planet, you don't just leave a guy hanging like that. When you start a job, finish it dammit!

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm still waiting for my alien reach around.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The humans' bathroom.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

only five were investigated

Can one sue Utah for gross neglience now? I mean, they got thousands of complaints from concerned citizens, and they only cared for investigating five of them? Or do they profile those complaints into "we are not investigating certain types of people", e.g. politicians that have been reported?

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

It's only 5 so far, reading the Bee Movie script takes a long time, especially when they have to keep stopping to sound out every other word.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather my Tax Dollars go to THAT instead of feeding Starving American Children!

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Who cares about if they’re hungry? I just want to talk about their genitalia!!!

[–] homesnatch@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only 12000? Those are rookie numbers! Get back to work!

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Seriously. This person filed 20,716 complaints about flight path noise pollution in a year. Just one person. I need to see a zero added behind that 12,000 figure, then I'll know at least six people are truly dedicated.

[–] m13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People should keep submitting fake reports, and make them somewhat plausible. Just so they don’t get instantly discarded and can actually tie up more resources by actually getting investigated.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is something an LLM is actually very useful for. It can make it sound both legitimate, be verbose and generate many submissions with little human effort.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Worth noting, Russia agrees very much and is flooding social media in a very similar way. The LLM makes it more effective now than in 2016

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But like, how would they even investigate them? That's the part I don't understand. Whoever was peeing in there, they're gone by the time the cops show up. It doesn't take that long to pee.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like they took the form down. If anyone has a new link, please post it. I've got some creative writing to share with the bigots in Utah.

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a straight guy, I have just walked into the wrong bathroom or chaises a kid into the wrong bathroom more times than I want to admit.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It turns out that writing "cum" 420 times isn't accepted as legitimate intel.

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