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lemmy.world

People seem confused by it but isn't it just a play on words with/combination of 'I think therefore I am' and sexual slang that often takes the form she blank til I blank?

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Kazumarareply
discuss.tchncs.de

she blank til I blank

More precisely it is:

she ___ on my ___ till I ___

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Ah oops, that's what I meant to type. In my defense it was very late and I was very tired :p

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lemmy.world

Honestly, if it said “til” and not “till,” I’d want one.

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Odoreply
lemmy.world

Till is the correct spelling. It's a separate word from until (and is actually older). 'Til is way newer and considered informal.

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lemmy.world

That’s fair, but I don’t like it as much 🤷

Though as a quibble, til and ’til are both correct spellings for an abbreviation of until, and till is a separate preposition. All are correct.

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lemmy.world

huh. i always learned till as a verb, like till the ground. is this a regional/dialect thing? because i want to stop editing my autocarrots from till to til.

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lemmy.world

No, till is also a verb and a noun for a cash register (that’s why I prefer til: less ambiguity), but as a preposition it’s somewhat archaic outside of a few dialects, afaik

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lemmy.world

also maybe something on a boat i think? i've heard "man the till" or "man the tiller" i can't remember, somewhere. maybe my imagination.

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lemmy.world

Oh, yes, good call! I think that’s essentially the same concept as with farming, where you split a channel in the stream of water or in a mound of earth.

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i never thought of it conceptually like that, but that makes a lot of sense for a cash register. you split the customer's cashflow stream into the store's. or vice versa

anyone else feel like they need to stare at their fingers a while too after learning what @[email protected] has been teaching us?

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Venatorreply
lemmy.nz

The correct spelling if you're plowing...

Yeah that works in this context I guess 😅

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No seriously, there's a definition of till that means the same as "until" but is like a century older. One of the many weird quirks of English.

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Might be one of those shirts sold in a foreign land where not the designer, the buyer, nor the readers will actually know english.

Just like those white guys with tattoos in Mandarin that read "I Like Corn".

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