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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Many years later, she's out there. She's still doing the nitty gritty. Could of cashed in and been a public speaker. I appreciate and respect what she does.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

She's a real one.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Greta Thunberg is the next generation of Bernie Sanders. Protect and cherish her.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Could have*

Learn basic grammar, FFS.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

No need to be rude about it, though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ikr like evr even rmr witch wrds 2 use?

Edit: sadly it wouldn't let me put the witch emoji for which

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oups my bad eyes didn't see it's a magic wand. I get the broom 🧹 and magic wand 🪄 but the witch doesn't come up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or maybe its because they're english is there second language and they could care less on lemmy, at least less then commenting.

Edit: bring the downvotes! I win, you loose.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Could of" instead of "Could've""Could have" is not a typical mistake people make that have English as their second language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that you think this needs a citation shows that you are a native speaker.

These might be no high quality sources, but it shows that it is something that non native speakers find weird:

Quora1

Quora2

Reddit

Blog entry about mistakes that native speakers make

Another similar blog

Oh, and here is a PhD thesis where you can see in chapter 5.2 "Error processing cost" that this type of error is more disrupting for non native than for native speakers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah those are not citations to the point, they are anecdotal at best.

I'm not a native speaker, my first language is french, and I used to make that mistake, which is why I brought it up. Get over yourself, there's no way to say "that's not a mistake they would make".

"This error is more disruptive for natives than non natives" doesn't mean what you think it means. Sure maybe it's not as frequent, it's not a basis to assume anything, or to say "I'm a native speaker".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Plagiarism is a bad thing

Including plagiarising the dictionary

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

If you feel outraged by her detention then be aware that thousands of people you've never heard of have suffered the same fate.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I hope she has a big glass showcase full of pictures of her being carried out by various police officers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Greta Thunberg was forcibly removed by the Swedish police for blocking the entrance to parliament for a second day along with a few dozen other climate activists.

Ms Thunberg, who was in a sit-down protest against “political inaction” over the spiralling climate crisis, was picked up by two police officers and dragged away from the parliament building.

“The climate justice movement has, for decades, been repeating the same message over and over again, like a broken record, and we feel like we are not being heard,” Ms Thunberg told the Associated Press.

This week’s protests came as the EU Environment Agency released its first-ever continent-wide assessment of the risks of the climate crisis, warning members states to prepare for its “catastrophic” impacts.

“Hundreds of thousands of people would die from heatwaves, and economic losses from coastal floods alone could exceed €1 trillion per year,” the report warned under a pessimistic projection of warming trends.

A UK court acquitted her last month for obstructing the entrance to a major oil conference after the judge ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict.


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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Greta was flexing that keffiyeh when it was still unpopular. She's a real one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

keep on making them roll that dice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is "they" in this instance?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The police, they are literally working against their own interest when they arrest her. I probably should have clarified that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what difference is she making

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

More of a difference than you're making, I fucking guarantee it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Making headlines removed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

tin of soup

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice to see someone who understands how to protest instead of the dip shits blocking ambulances and defacing paintings in the UK.