For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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      I’ve always wondered why so many people have this reaction, rather than seeing it as a cool thing that languages can do. Namely, taking bits from other languages and making them into something new.

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        I am all for developing languages so that you get new words. And am I really dying on this hill. Hell no😊

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        Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊

        It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird

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          I didn’t know that, I think I know a few modern words that use a mix. Couldn’t come up with one for this comment, though