Spyke
lemmy.world

My old man pet peeve: the plural of "vinyl" is "vinyl." They are "records" or "LPs" - not "vinyls". Now get off of my LAN! ;)

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Vespairreply
lemm.ee

Hey now, "vinyls" is a perfectly acceptable word.... Assuming you're referring to multiple different types of vinyl, rather than multiple records or other vinyl products 😉

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I often listen to vinyls of my favorite band... The Divinyl.

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letsgoreply
lemm.ee

They're probably the same people that talk about "legos".

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"Can you pass me the bag of plastic blocks?"

Not

"Can you pass me the bag of Legos"

If you wanted a box of adhesive bandages. You'd say "Can you pass me the box of band-aids?" or a tissue, "Can you pass me a kleenex?"

Companies do not want their brand to become generic trademarks.

It's not because Lego is already pural

"I have many Lego blocks"

Not

"I have many Lego"

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Languages adapt to the people using them

Da lauws of ENG 'r mien

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The actual diamond stylus would be fine. I'd imagine that the needle tearing the paper, and then dragging it in whatever direction would be pretty rough on the cantilever.

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Delete this, or eventually it will develop into an ironic-then-quickly-unironic post-vaporwave genre that I'll find out about via a YouTube video essay in a year's time

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