[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You need to prompt your party to roleplay as non-idiots and think through their solution step-by-step. Of course, it's possible your party is also running an outdated model.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

they probably fell into an empty enclosure one day and the zookeepers just rolled with it and put up a sign

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Are capybaras as chill as their reputation suggests, or is that more a feature of cases that are used to captivity? If the memes/images/videos are to be believed, I'd expect to be able to just wander up to one in the wild and have it respond like a well-socialized pet dog.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Inconvenience" would be the verb for causing an inconvenience. So in the sentence you're going for, "inconvene" would have to be replaced with the passive "be inconvenienced" ("we've gotta be inconvenienced and grovel to google a bit"). I don't believe we have a separate word for "endure an inconvenience", although it seems like the kind of thing some languages might have a single word for. Stylistically I'd probably restructure the sentence to "we've gotta put up with the inconvenience" rather than just using the passive verb, but yeah.

I think you'd most often see this verb in the stock phrase "Sorry to inconvenience you".

[-] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile in English we just borrow things from other languages and forget what they mean. For example, porpoise, from old French porpois, from Latin porcus marinus, meaning... ah, yes: sea pig.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago

It's a fictional diary entry, from The Prestige. The next entry is 2 months later, when he's fallen in love with a different woman.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

But Larry, you don't have any hair. Why do you need a hairbrus--auuugh bears why are there bears

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