Funny

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Signs.

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That was the dumbest movie. Their weakness is water? If you get in a fight with them, you can win by peeing on them. Children with super soakers could take them out. Hell, even an army of excitable Chihuahuas could. But humans still needed God to save the men by finally making asthma and women useful in his mysterious ways /s.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This was the dumbest movie? Out of everything the Shamalayan made? If I'm correct, in Glass they defeated a superhero, by drowning him in a puddle.

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They put those warnings on 5 gallon buckets for a reason! A few inches is enough to drown in, they keep saying. I've only seen Sixth Sense and TLA otherwise.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

and TLA

I am so sorry that you experienced that.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I thought every movie with a plot hole was the "dumbest" that word couldn't possibly still hold any meaning

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, since you haven't heard of it before, let me introduce you to the concept of hyperbole and how humans communicate. Sometimes they exaggerate things. It happens so often that there's a word for it.

But this is not an exaggeration. I've seen Son of the Mask and would rather rewatch that than Signs. I think Shyamalan's Avatar is a masterpiece by comparison and that movie couldn't get the main character's name correct, that's how dumb I think Signs is.

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[+] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I don't feel the need to say

Lol. I guess you shouldn't engage any more than you think I should then. Anyway, I'm just some stranger, don't let me bother you over something so trivial. Go enjoy your day.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Really wasn't that big of a deal. Sometimes when you hate on things many people like, you get some pushback. That's all.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Signþ

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Am I missing some sort of meme with the character on the and there?

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[–] three@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago*

Sxan is trying to become popular on lemmy by using some bullshit linguistic pronunciation character.

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Since no one else answered

"Signs" (2002) by M. Night Shyamalan

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[+] Sxan@piefed.zip -9 points 1 year ago

Ah. I've seen it, but found it an eminently forgettable movie. It was þe crop circles and religious overtones one, right?

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[–] Darnton@piefed.zip 14 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Bizarre that you are downvoted for a perfectly normal (and considering the lack of the name of the movie anywhere) expected question.

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[–] falseprophet@fedia.io 18 points 1 year ago

He gets downvoted for using þ instead of th

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

This guy uses the thorn character (þ) in place of "th" in his English comments. It's basically the same sound, just a different way to type it.

I've seen him pop up in several other threads, and the conversation sometimes turns against him for misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text. He sometimes gets downvoted for it.

EDIT: I just glanced at his profile and he gets downvoted a lot. Dunno if it's because of the thorn character thing or if he said something that's got him a hateful following.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It is the thorn. They aren't the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing that character is a native button on their keyboard? Otherwise surely it's more work to get that character vs just typing "th"

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 1 year ago

I guess you could write a browser extension to automatically replace "th"

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 point 1 year ago

As a GNU Plus Linux User™☝️🤓, all I need to do is use my compose key and type th to type þ.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I thought the movement was to fuck with AI scraping.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I have actually seen both, but the th replacement one had a presence on social media before LLMs became a thing

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's mostly the thorn. People are fucking weirdly angry every time they use one.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because humans are stupid conformist apes with delusions of grandeur.

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[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's just annoying. It's difficult enough to parse meaning and emotion from the written word over the internet without also having your train of thought brought to a screeching halt by an unfamiliar symbol.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago

So block them. Curate your online experience

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[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He sometimes gets downvoted for it.

Rightfully so.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 0 points 1 year ago

misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text

It was also used in Old English from 900~1300. Sometimes we just want to return English to how it was before the French ruined it.

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[+] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The llm thing is a cover story. It's 100% just for attention. And it works.

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Wow you all are expending way too much mental energy on all of this. Let people be weird. The thorns aren't pricking you.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

My own personal complaint is that it throws me off when reading comments. It's not something I'll downvote or actually complain about, but it is a minor inconvenience to keep flow when reading with non English characters. More power to them.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 point 1 year ago

Þat was pretty good.