r/confidentlyincorrect

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Apparently "would of" is now 100% correct, and if you disagree, you must be racist and/or xenophobic

Not sure why the racism/xenophobia part comes to play

u/ALazy_Cat — 6 days ago

From Instagram, about the recent solar eclipse and how light behaves (Green is correct)

Last picture is from the video where the comments were, for additional context.

I'm not part of the conversation, but screenshot were taken by my friend, Green. That's why you can see "Edytuj" ("Edit") there. Saying just in case.

At least Red wanted to understand in the end.

u/KazmylQ — 5 days ago

In linguistics, nearly all researchers ascribe to a worldview known as descriptivism. Since language is constantly changing (in space, time, and by in-groups, such as race), it is impossible to choose a single correct way of speaking for everyone, and doing so has often been used to justify racism.

All these grammar nazi types basically only accept that the language they learned is exactly correct at the time they learned it, where they learned it. Any deviation from themselves is not normal, and wrong, even though scientifically, languages are constantly evolving, and thus to see what speaking correctly means, we must see what most people agree on or use to communicate. Nobody writes to-day anymore, but just over 50 years ago, that was correct.

u/funky_galileo — 5 days ago
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Aurora covering "Rasputin" - written, produced and co-sung by Frank Farian - is "taking it from minorities"

Here ya have it folks - an Instagram post with the singer Aurora performing her version of Boney M's "Rasputin" gets called out for "gentrification" - or rather "half-colloquial meaning of it being white people taking from minorities". With a German white man being the literal heart of the band, as the writer, producer, and the main male singer.

And "A" sure is doubling down on the confidently incorrect rhetoric down the comments, as she argues it doesn't matter who wrote it because quote "is the girl in the video writing a song?"

Please make it make sense... I'm trying not to think like Mr. C - but, boy, is it one hell of a job!

u/tarmanlord — 7 days ago

"It's obviously B!"

The answer is none. There isn't enough info. One of my friends showed this to me and said it was clearly C. All you can see is the acceleration, not the actual speed.

u/avg-bathroom-invader — 8 days ago

Ducting doesn't move cold air more efficiently than a fan.

In a video where somebody connected a mini split to a fan in another room using a plastic tube to funnel the cold air directly to the fan in the other room. Somebody thinks a big fan moving the air from the room with the mini split is as efficient at cooling as moving only the cold air.

To be clear, the plastic isn't as good as real ducting in a ducted central air system, but it is a whole lot better than a fan moving hot and cold air indiscriminately.

u/GRex2595 — 9 days ago