• PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Great explanation!

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    I do agree with you regarding drove vs droves, but that’s something Connections does sometimes. I think they sacrifice accuracy to avoid giving a hint (in this case that it’s more than one). I can’t name other examples off the top of my head, but I’ve definitely noticed it before.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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      5 months ago

      I have definitely seen it do things that I didn’t agree with mainly because they weren’t a part of my dialect before (I can’t recall a very good example of that, but one that is kinda similar but not quite was when they used “deli” to mean a place that sells sandwiches: where I live, delis tend to sell the meats that would go on a sandwich, but not the bread…so like ham, salami, that kind of thing), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an example where the use in their preferred dialect it still required some fudging to get it to work.