DCC Appreciation Thread...

You smarties probably already knew this, but I did not, so I looked it up. I have always wondered why your pants were called a pair of pants in the plural instead of in singular form. So, I looked it up.

Pants (like trousers, shorts, jeans, and similar leg garments) are treated as plural in English—"a pair of pants"—even though we wear just one item at a time. This is a linguistic quirk rooted in history, etymology, and grammar.

Historical Reason: They Were Literally Two Pieces
  • In earlier centuries (and even ancient times, like with garments worn by Ötzi the Iceman around 3300 BCE), leg coverings were often two separate pieces—one for each leg—tied or belted together at the waist, similar to modern chaps or old-style leggings.
  • You put on a "pair" of leg tubes, just like a pair of stockings or socks. When tailors eventually sewed them into a single garment with a crotch, the old plural habit stuck.
  • This pattern applies to many "bifurcated" (two-branching) items: things with two parts for legs or arms get plural treatment.
 
So, I was getting through the formalities after I got that info from Grok. Thank yous and all that, and he offered this up.

I'm here whenever the language-nerd mood strikes. Just hit me with whatever quirk catches your eye next—whether it's more clothing oddities, why we say "the" before some countries but not others, or why "literally" now sometimes means "figuratively."

This is a phenomenon that literally pisses me off. I hate when people use the word like this. Example: We were sitting in a meeting at work one day and one of the young girls says, "I literally can't breathe", and I turned to her and told her if she literally couldn't breathe she would be dead. Drives me nuts.

Good thing is, I'm making friends at work. :unsure
 
I hope you straightened Grok out about that.
 
boozeman said:
You might want to correct your life coach on how you want things.
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I would correct my life coach before I correct our future overlords.
 


Showed this to my wife. She didn't laugh. At all. :lol
 
NoDak said:
I don't understand why women insist on making their eyebrows look fucking awful. And what's with those giant God damn fake eyelashes? Jesus H. Christ. What people consider attractive nowadays boggles the mind.

~shakes fist at cloud~
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I'm with you, man. I don't get it, either. To me it makes them look stupid. And, thankfully, my wife doesn't do shit like that. Hell, even when she wears makeup, it's very subtle. When me and the daughter were watching Tech in the softball tournament, almost all those girls had the makeup plastered onto their faces, and butterflies glued to their eyelids. I can't tell you how many times while we were watching my daughter would yell, "FAKE" when a closeup of one of them would come on the screen. Which is a whole nother matter. My wife gets upset (not angry) that I have raised my daughter like a second son. But, she has started getting pretty miffed when my daughter turns to me for the 5th time of the evening and goes, "women, amirite?". :unsure
 


When did this become abnormal?
 
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I went looking for a couple of emojis we lost over time, but I couldn't find them. But, I found a few that are kinda cool.

For when someone says or posts something gay - :ghey (ghey)

Funny/dead/blown away -:whoa (whoa)

This is one we had, but lost -:banana (banana)

wut - :wut (wut)

WTF - :thefuck (thefuck)
 
This is one that I thought we had lost, but in the last move to the new platform or somewhere along the line it changed names.

:explode (explode)
 
Cotton said:
I went looking for a couple of emojis we lost over time, but I couldn't find them. But, I found a few that are kinda cool.

For when someone says or posts something gay - :ghey (ghey)

Funny/dead/blown away -:whoa (whoa)

This is one we had, but lost -:banana (banana)

wut - :wut (wut)

WTF - :thefuck (thefuck)
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Most of these are not cool, actually.
 
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