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That's interesting. I wonder why we're getting different results.
Different versions of xetex, perhaps? I'm using
XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)
A little out of date, as I haven't got around to updating my Debian yet.
Did you try my minimal example? I don't use xelatex, but I've just tried running it on my example code and the output is the same as with pdflatex.
Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
\end{document}
Yes, that seems about right to me.
I can't quite put my finger on the rule for when you can use "for me"; perhaps there isn't one.
I do think, however, that you can safely put "For me," at the beginning of the sentence instead of using "to me" later: "For me, it seems...", "For me, it looks like...", etc.
For me, "for me" is more subjective than "to me", suggesting there may be other equally valid points of view.
But I would never say "It seems for me", or the other items in your list except for "...makes more sense for me...".
My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.
I would be really handy for finding out what's going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I'd imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?
I'm not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:
My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk
I haven't posted any comments since, so I don't know if it's a one-off thing.
Beehaw's defederation of lemmy.world doesn't seem to be involved in this one.
In the UK, we have Waitrose supermarkets, which have a "10 items or fewer" lane. The rest are "N items or less". I wouldn't go out of my way to find a Waitrose – they are fewer and further between than other kinds – but I certainly appreciate it when I shop at one and buy a small number of items.
Likewise, with general usage and mis-usage of "less", I wouldn't go out of my way to correct anyone, but I enjoy it when "fewer" is used correctly. And I do so myself, of course!
These sorts of shifts in language seem inevitable, and always seem to be in the direction of a decline in precision. But I wonder if that perception is just a cognitive bias: perhaps interesting and exciting words are emerging but we're less likely to spot them until they themselves begin to decline in precision?
It reminds me of Vermeer's Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?