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Stop the cruelty (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. @[email protected] said:

why reign in the Supreme Court

This is, based on my understanding of the whole context, an error. And not just a simple typo or harmless mistaken homophone. It actually fundamentally changes the meaning of that phrase. They intended it to say "why put controls on the Supreme Court". But the words actually used mean "why rule as a member of the Supreme Court". It took me 3 or 4 rereads of the comment to understand that the hyphen that preceded that phrase was meant to switch to a sarcastic tone about switching blame, rather than asking a question about Republican goals ("why go to the effort of controlling the Supreme Court...if we're not going to abuse those powers to keep the population dumb", or something along those lines, is what I was expecting)

So I suggested the correction: "rein in".

@[email protected] was just...I dunno, making a shitty joke, I guess? It doesn't add anything to anyone's conversation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I distinctly remember the first time I looted the reigns of chaos after farming it for months on like 5 different alts, it was reign, not rain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had to Google what "reigns of chaos" was. It looks like yes, Blizzard was using the term correctly. We have three words here:

Reign: a verb meaning rule.

Rein: a noun meaning the strap or rope held in the hands to control a horse, and a verb derived from that by analogy, meaning "to keep or bring under control".

Rain: drops of liquid water coming from the sky.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

You didn't have to Google anything, you could've just taken my word for it.