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fedia.io

Skeptic. Reddit users might be an infection on the earth to some but they arent sceptic to my knowledge.

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eleijeepreply
piefed.social

sceptic, sceptical, scepticism
scep·​tic, scep·​ti·​cal, scep·​ti·​cism

chiefly British spellings of skeptic, skeptical, skepticism

vs.

septic
adjective
sep·​tic ˈsep-tik
1 : of, relating to, or causing putrefaction
2 : relating to, involving, caused by, or affected with sepsis
septic patients
3 : used for sewage treatment and disposal
a septic system
also : of or relating to a septic system
septic effluents

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fedia.io

I want you to think about whether or not in the context of the post they meant skeptical, because they did indeed mean skeptical.

I also want you to think about whether it's likely that I did indeed know the definition of both words before I made my comment.

And then you have a nice day, ya hear.

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eleijeepreply
piefed.social

"Septic" is not spelt "sceptic" in any variant of English.

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You misread the comment, and you agree with them

Skeptic is spelled sceptic in Britain, but septic is not.

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You’re repeating what I said while saying that I’m wrong which suggests you misunderstood the comment chain.

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feddit.org

in my defense. English is not my first language and I made a false friend here, because the German "skeptisch" (adjective, meaning "sceptical") is close to the English substantive "sceptic"/"skeptic". :)

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Yeah. Someone else already corrected me on the European spelling so I learned something new, I guess.

Edit: My responses were a bit harsh and unreasonable and I'm sorry for that.

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Honestly, most of them aren't very skeptical either. The number of times I've seen a top comment plastered with awards that's just blatantly wrong it's quite high.

No one reads past the headline, and the ones who do never read past the top comments. And none of them ever verify the information in the comments as correct.

Redditors are just as easy to fool as anyone else.

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They spell it "sceptic" in the UK.

Which I always found strange... Given how they pronounce "sceptre", I dunno why they wouldn't just use a 'k' for "sceptic."

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Septic. It’s a shitshow.

Eat the fucking rich. Burn the data centers. Dismantle the stock market and billionaires and oligarchy.

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