I have decided to fundamentally cut back purchasing activity for the next few days in order to increase mutual trust with my partner. In unrelated news, it is payday on Thursday. (View Post)

Now that is a position I can get behind :) (View Post)

When this came up last time I pointed out that "you" is now both singular and plural and everyone got used to that. There's a lovely OED article about it. https://public.oed.com/blog/a… (View Post)

I agree; and that's why the discussion in the literature is so important; and why I also dug a bit beyond the "google consensus number" because - as others have suggested, it sounded o… (View Post)

I think you are right that the 1.7% is an over-estimate. And so is the "vanishingly small numbers". There's a really good paper on the debate on what should and should not be included,… (View Post)