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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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JigglySackles lemmy.world JigglySackles@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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You looked up the modified word, look up the root.

Though it would be helpful if they just displayed the root below the modified. 🙃

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remon ani.social remon@ani.social
Joined: 2024-09-25
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ah ... Kroxldyphivc.

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amio lemmy.world amio@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Amen to that. For -ly in English, it's a reasonably good bet it's an adverb and will still be something if you lop it off, but in this day and age it seems like you shouldn't need to. For starters it's not always as obvious, and it's an extra pointless click which people used to care about.

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paranoid lemmy.world paranoid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-05
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This type of thing drives me fucking insane

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-15
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Especially there not being a hyperlink

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Rhynoplaz lemmy.world Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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That's easy, I'll just look up incongruent.

incongruent: not congruent. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Pudutr0n lemmy.world Pudutr0n@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Perfectly cromulent definition right there.

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whaleross lemmy.world whaleross@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#9 · (edited) Quote Reply

Recursion. See recursion.

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