@XaiaX it's a context-inferred usage coming from hearing people talk about the shibboleths of one group or another & only catching the tone
@XaiaX so the Grey Havens are fine, a grey morning is all right if one simply must, but it's a gray dog
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@chaosprime@XaiaX TIL there's a difference. I just assumed one was American the other European. Also I couldn't say which was which -
@mediapathic@chaosprime there's a weird mnemonic for this. Grey in England. Gray in America. I've got a lot of Englishisms from mom. -
@XaiaX@mediapathic probably the England thing is why i associate indiscriminate use of "grey" with class pretension -
@XaiaX@mediapathic faux Britishism being how Americans perform class pretension -
@XaiaX@mediapathic which in turn is why i can't get over it every single time a British person says "idear"
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@chaosprime I think I would have to make a tremendous effort to be able to do that. -
@XaiaX i could not in good faith formulate a justification for why it would be worth even a minor effort -
@XaiaX this is the mostly just the kind of thing i'm forced to develop policy on because of operating a text-based online game
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