I had a friend do this. Not in the theatre, but a week later when we were talking about the movie. I wasn't sure how to tell him without embarrassing him, but he joked about it himself later.

"More commonly used" doesn't mean that the other is incorrect, as your comment implies. Also, it's only more common in the US, and we can't tell where the person is from by his initial comment.

No no you’re thinking of translator

What Poe did was amplify or switch electrical signals

I'm from the EU and originally learnt (haha) UK English, but since i'm a net citizen, some americanisms have found their way into my vocabulary - understandable when taking US exceptionalism into account.

Here in german speaking central europe i learnt (i wont stop using it just to piss @atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works off lol) about the wars among the greek citystates, with references to Homer, and later on when learning Latin (which i sucked at, but that's not so important right now) we read excerpts and learnt (hahaha roflcopter) about the mythology a lot more. There also were references to the Greek mythology in our literature classes.

Thanks for letting me live rent free in your head!

Ain’t is in the dictionary, it’s still considered incorrect.

Dude i'm just chuckling when i see you pop up. We could make a running gag out of it if you are up to it - i keep using "learnt" and you keep shitting on me for using something you are not used to lol

I would even offer that everytime i use it, i send you a PM so you can comment on my incorrect usage ;-)

It's considered informal, and in some dialects (mine included) unusual. The Grammarly link you edited into your first comment doesn't even support a classification of "learnt" as informal, it literally just describes it as a dialect difference. You're doing the same thing as telling a Brit that they're spelling the word incorrectly if they write "colour"

I think you are confusing informal and irregular in this case.

Alas, poor atomicbocks, they learnt that people spelt some words differently in other parts of the world. Whilst they knew what was meant, 'twixt comment and reply all their indignation swept them up. They dreamt of a world in which they telt all speakers of the tongue how they ought to have exprest it

And all but two of these examples can still be heard regularly where I am!

I'm not, but "irregular" does not mean "wrong" either. Heaps of English words have irregular forms. "Built" is one of them.

Aw come on, stop ribbing him ;-) I looked up what he comments normally, and he seems like a stand up guy, and i have no hard feelings at all, as long as i made my point that education does not protect against assimilating different pidgins and integrating them into your common vocabulary.

Ahahaha, fair point, I respect that civility

Interestingly, my education regarding norse mythology was sorely lacking after school. We touched a few subjects, but without personal initiative i wouldn't know shit about it outside of Odin, Loki, Thor and the Midgard Snake.

That is something that wouldn't be possible on Reddit, which is why i left (aside from the APIcalypse). I believe we all here can much more easily find common ground simply by staying human.

Yes which is why we say that and not builded. I’m not sure what your point is.

I think I've been quite clear in repeatedly saying that "learnt" was not wrong to use in the context that it was used in there. You've so far ignored that:

• The Grammarly source that you linked yourself does not say that "learnt" is wrong

• The dictionary.com page that the other person linked does not say that "learnt" is wrong

• A word being the less common form doesn't mean it's wrong

• A word being informal doesn't mean it's wrong

• A word being irregular doesn't mean it's wrong

I haven’t ignored anything but if you are going to be an asshole then I am going to ignore you.

Please look at the link again and pay attention to the difference in regional dialects. I would have been happy to learn that it was accepted in other places but instead I’ve been told to masturbate, and had two other people be a fucking asshole to me. Only one person has been simply informative and I looked it up further. Until you can emulate them kindly fuck off.

We did too but that was a few decades ago.

Thanks for reminding me about Kablam!

Please look at the link again and pay attention to the difference in regional dialects.

Absolutely baffling response. Your link specifically says that "learnt" is valid in some dialects. You quoted one of the times that it says that. I've said it. At least two other people have said it to you as well. Either you haven't read it or you are suffering from a crushing case of US-defaultism.

People, including me, have been rude to you because you started the conversation off by being rude and have continued being rude throughout the thread. The first comment you made was an attempt to mock someone for their spelling, which would be rude even if it was actually incorrect. Your replies to me have primarily been refusals to actually engage with anything I've said and, apparently, an equal refusal to properly read your own source.

Yeah, in Tenet the character is never named, but iirc he is listed as "Protagonist" in the credits, which is the standard placeholder name.

You still aren’t reading what I am saying because it’s more important for me to be wrong than to have learned something in your mind. So goodbye.

I took a whole Greek Lit class in high school.. but that was like 20+ years ago.

fuck I'm getting old

Doctor: "You have an oedypian complex."

Oedypus: "I have a what?"

Doctor: "You heard me, motherfucker."

And the Trojan horse was literally shaped like a horse, a bit too on the nose, no?

Wonder what percentage of people will claim it's a CP2077 ripoff lol

at least you are not growing old alone, i going with ya all the way ;-)

Oh I hope so. Can't wait to hear someone complain about the dub or the way they jack in to a cyber deck being a copy of the matrix.

I was in a game store and I overheard a couple of guys learning how to play Netrunner (a cyberpunk hacking game) and one of them laughs and says "So, this is what happens when you can't get the Shadowrun license!"

What's interesting is I use both "dreamt" and "dreamed", depending on the circumstance. I'm not completely sure when I use one over the other.

This had me thinking of Avatar (blue alien one) and the Unobtanium bring called unobtanium.

My introduction to unobtanium was The Core, which is a bad movie, but one of my favorite movies lol

Presumably the cyclops will just be a guy who lost an eye.
::: spoiler spoiler
(That is, before Odysseus Nobody got to him.)
:::

When I was a kid, we went to see a play with my class.

Someone complained that is was a cheap copy of Lord of the Rings.

It was The Hobbit.

Wait till they hear about the genius trick with the Trojan horse

"Why would they take it in! It's literally named after their city being sneak attacked!"

I read a lot of Greek mythology on my own and through elective classes but I think the only core course material I had on it was pretty brief. Shakespeare was pretty much every year starting in middle school but not much Greek.

We were definitely taught it in the UK, would have been in fourth year of primary school if I remember correctly (so that would be roughly US grade 3 or so).

No no you're thinking of transistor.

What Poe did was transmit radio and television signals.

Poe was my sister?

That still pisses me off. I get the reference, and it's still stupid. Then again so are the humans in that movie. They just had to nudge an asteroid so that it hit the area, then moved in with no local xenos or wildlife anywhere nearby. Nobody ever should have had to fight a single space smurf. I hate poorly written villains.

I'm just upset that they left out the wordplay on Odysseus telling the cyclops that his name was nobody

It is worse than that.

Assuming similar solar system formation physics as ours, there would have been plenty of unobtanium in the remnants from the forming of their solar system.

They shouldn't have even needed to land.

Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Victorians and WWI are all part of the UK national primary curriculum and have been for at least 30 years.

It wasn't a joke. It was Don Dickle, resident low effort spammer

No, you're thinking of a transmitter.

Poe liked to wear women's clothes.

It's fine, you're allowed to learn things outside of school. Something many people apparently have completely forgotten.

Scientists are nerds, if a scientist in real life discovered a naturally occurring room temperature superconductor they would absolutely call it something nerdy like unobtanium.

I've fallen for this when playing Ultima IV. "I dunno it's kinda too generic" Only realized how stupid my way of thinking was when some people on Lemmy pointed it out.