And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.

I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form. It’s pretty common in language to shorten things to make it faster to speak. Think of the endless contractions in English or perhaps leaving part of a sentence completely unspoken because the content is easily assumed by the interlocutors.

Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.

It’s cute how you made it personal for no reason.

Funny enough I learned about it in a linguistics class from a professor out of Michigan. Never heard the concept before and I think a lot of people had their minds blown.

To go after a loose group of reporters from different countries?

They aren’t in the United States. This lawsuit is in France.

Dialect variation. For me, saying “the car needs washed” sounds truly strange but millions and millions of people say it. You’re experiencing similar with this phrase.

I shudder when I go to an Apple meeting because they use Webex. (Shudder)

When you input your password, then your biometrics (faceID, fingerprint, etc) become active. A restart requires you to enter that again. The police can make you put your finger on your phone or look at it, but they can’t make you divulge your password without a court order.

You’ll never know who did the voting. There are some odd people who will just downvote any comment. There are also people who makes bots to do the same. Every chance that some idiot didn’t like that you have an opinion, but it may not be that at all.

It is very weird how people are coming in to declare their preference on architecture for some reason.

IT here. They were terrible.

I assume that the plinth lifts it high enough for your finger to comfortably fit under.

lol

You’re being downvoted because everyone has stopped worrying about Netflix and now the zeitgeist is to hate Apple.

People who vote for Trump like to blame democrats and woke people, but what they really and truly hate is capitalism. They just can’t see that what makes them unhappy is the natural effect of a fully capitalistic society.

The only thing that really sucks about it is that knowledge that was openly searchable is now locked away behind logins.

LOL this is the biggest sign out there that ARM is making a superior product. Once people start going protectionist, it’s time to move on to the new thing.

Any chance you have a frienemy that is doing shenanigans?