To be fair, I don’t think the “average person” is to blame. Some people are just more sheltered or “eyes-closed” than others.
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If it’s a statement, definitely.
“Bomberman has lore?” is generally not the standard formation of a yes/no question. They’re usually formed for with the verb “do”.
If one wants to know if Amazon sells books and wants a yes/no answer, one would generally ask “Does Amazon sell books?”
If someone is browsing Amazon and finds books unexpectedly, they would be more likely to say “Amazon sells books?”
However, in some dialects of English, the two might be interchangeable. I think it might be the case for Indian English, to give an example.
“Bomberman has lore?” as a question would generally be some sort of surprise or suggestion that it goes against expectations.
“Donald Trump is a young man.”
“Donald Trump is a young man?” – response to a statement that went against expectations.
“Is Donald Trump a young man?” – neutral, general question (if additional context or tone is absent)
It’s great if you can get one when baking. Recipes sometimes call for 1 whole egg and one extra egg yolk
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News@lemmy.world•Trump Says Biden Autopen Actions Are Illegal, Calls For Arrests
5·19 hours agoLet’s get to that “after”
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will complyEnglish
1·20 hours agoLinux is a great example, thank you.
I figured – that’s exactly why I shared that. Overall, your English is great!
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•Where did you think they were coming from?
221·24 hours agoWell, I kinda get it. We can tell kids how babies are made, but we don’t have to go into certain details or say “Sorry Timmy, Mommy and Daddy are going to go try to make a baby sibling for you now!”
There’s also the perspective that we should value animal lives and appreciate that we are choosing to sacrifice them for our privilege of enjoying their meat.
But yeah, this is pretty silly “outrage”.
I think you meant “Does Bomberman have a lore?”
With a post titled “Bomberman has a lore?”, I was expecting the post to be either surprised that Bomberman has a lore, or surprised that someone would have said Bomberman has a lore.
Especially when paired with the picture of a game’s boxart, I thought that this post was about something lore-related on the box or in its artwork.
As to where to find the lore, I’d check the manuals, including manuals from other regions. For a lot of the 90s, the manuals were the best (and occasionally only) place to find lore!
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca•Has Super Smash Bros added any characters to the Switch title since I got them all lile years ago?
4·1 day agoDepends on whether you got them all before or after they added the last one, which was Sora.
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1·1 day agoYou say this with certainty, so you’ve got me curious. Could you show me some successful international non-profits that reject Capitalism?
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will complyEnglish
311·3 days agoWe live in a Capitalist world, and like it or not, those CEOs know how to make companies thrive in it.
That’s the idea, at least.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump administration jails migrant teens in facility known for child abuse
1·4 days agoMaybe parentheses or a spoiler tag would’ve helped! Lol
It was just a joke anyway, not an actual headline improvement
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What would you consider the ideal "stoner food?"
5·9 days agoCame here to say the same. Great otherwise, but the perfect food when high. Or drunk.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump administration jails migrant teens in facility known for child abuse
13·9 days agoHeadlines are so awkward to read. Let me add some punctuation to help.
Trump, administration jails migrant teens in facility, known for child abuse
“Quick! A giant meteor is heading for our planet! Collision is expected in less than a week!”
…but if I sleep 7 times while doing all this level grinding and doing sidequests, nothing goes wrong…
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?
2·9 days agoThank you! Interesting and helpful.
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News@lemmy.world•Renee Nicole Good, the ‘amazing’ poet mother of three, shot dead by ICE agents in ‘public execution’
2·10 days agoIt wouldn’t be as bad if it were “amazing poet”. Then it looks more like a quote.
I get that this is standard for journalistic quotes, but don’t most people colloquially use quotation marks for sarcasm or “allegidisms” or other not-completely-proven-to-be-true thing?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?
1·10 days agoInteresting point about cameras. Why doesn’t the footage usually help?










Man, it’s going to suck for these guys if the US has a civil war