Most often the "fancier" words are loanwords from other language. Plaintiff/Defendant are from the French "pleintif/defendant", litigation is from Latin. Firefighter, firetruck, and other compound words were created relatively recently compared to the others. Firefighters, firetrucks and newspapers mostly didn't exist until after English mixed with other languages.

I've never seen "most environmental" or "fewer turns". We get "fewer toll roads" and sometimes "avoids traffic" during rush hour

"You're the shit" means the opposite of "you're shit" and "you ain't shit"

Nothing much whats up with you

Nazis?

What a great way to have all the convenience of a fish in a portable package

I don't think Sausage Party was made for children.

Hoodie.

Custom building a computer? Don't cheap out on the power supply or you might end up with a smoke machine

pdf link or fake

I am all brother on this blessed day

Dick move. Like tearing down a missing animal poster.

Comment section

Look inside

Flying Squid

User and post flairs

I can fix her

A dude asking how to remove a cock ring on the lemmy.world support page

I actually love all these regulations on smartphones (mainly by the EU), like the recent USB-C standard. That one in particular makes it so much easier to share chargers around the house!

I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.

2 Episode 1, 2 Episode 2, Alyx

I prefer reading the TLDR instead of clicking into the article, opening a new tab, having to deal with all the cookie popups. AutoTLDR is just raw text.

At no point during that sentence did I have any idea what the next word would be

Just curious: Where in the article does it say $23? It says $13.99, so I'm wondering if it was a typo.

Holy shit that looks tasty

For only $20, the new Amazon Basics Grand Theft Auto.

Amazing character development

Is it wrong?

stuck

I'm pretty sure it's ironic.

To sell more globes, obviously.

IT WAS THEM'LL

They didn't work.

the giant enemy spider

The video of the brick hitting the woman in the car. Saddest dashcam video I've ever seen

Good to know, SatansMaggotyCumFart

Only WinRAR can create RAR files if I recall correctly. That's the proprietary part.

That's a baby starling! They do exist in North America.

Fucked up in the crib sippin dr perky

I always get excited when I hear Cave's lemon speech. Mostly because it's a good speech, but also because it means the end of the underground section

I physically can't burp. The muscles in my throat don't open to let air out. We had r/noburp on reddit, but I don't know if there's an equivalent here.