this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
70 points (90.7% liked)
Showerthoughts
33201 readers
753 users here now
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
A pair of scissors. Is this an English grammar rule when 2 parts are connected to function as one it's still a pair.?
It’s called a plurale tantum or “plural-only noun”.
I'd say it's less of a grammar rule and more about how things made up of two similar parts can be conceptualised
English grammar and spelling rules were made up on the fly by Dutch workers with a tenable grasp on the language themselves.
They just operated the first English printing presses and the owner valued quantity over quality. So they just did fucking whatever.
Source?
It was William Caxton about 600 years ago who owned it.
Everything I found just now talks about how great a historical figure he was, and implies he somehow was personally doing the work.
But if you dig deeper you should be able to find reference to the Dutch workers he brought with the press who knew how to use it and actually set the type on the presses. They were the ones actually making those books that standardized English grammar and spelling.
I don't have the time at the moment, but if you're interested then that's enough to start researching