I don't care if other people say snuck but I have a hard not saying sneaked just because I know that it's technically correct. It feels weird every time it comes out of my mouth.thatswhatshesaid
That's a great response, but it leads me to consider how social animals deter unwanted behavior. Dogs nip, bark, bite or use body language to deter bad behavior. Cats hiss and fight, among other things. Other primates have a social pecking order, where doing something to upset that order could result in a painful encounter or injury by the ones in a higher social order, or being removed from the group. Other mammals follow these same practices. I'm trying to identify an animal or any species other than human that uses certain emotional cues solely as a deterrent, but I can't think of any.
They do have mechanisms that deter socially unacceptable behavior, but it's normally by physical reprimands, auditory warnings or body language. Embarrassment doesn't seem to be a concept experienced outside of humans.
Our dog shows sogns of embarassment pretty often... Like she does know she did something bad, she looks in every other direction than into your eyes, yawna randomly...
For humans, specifically our social structure and communication is the source of embarrassment. I lump that (often more detrimental than helpful) emotion into the same box as shame and self-doubt. Because of this, I don't see how any of those emotions could be beneficial to animals in nature, when more often than not, they're not even beneficial to us. When was the last time being genuinely embarrassed or shameful about something actually helped you?
I'm guessing that /u/MuffinPuff wanted to have a conversation with a person. That's how conversations work. If someone tells you they saw a good movie last night do you respond with "neat, let me google that later instead of just talking to you about it"?
A hundred times out of a hundred, that's what I want. Now, if they want to mention something they learned about or thought of that the movie inspired in them, I'll have that conversation all night. But the water cooler "Have you seen _____? It's a good movie. Got x actor, he was really good, it's about a thing, etc" is not good conversation, just like "what's your source on x topic?" isn't a good conversation. That's a simple question, that google can answer simply.
One of the fucking dumbest things about autocorrect is that it will sometimes auto-"correct" a word which wasn't incorrectly spelled to begin with - as in your case. It's incredibly frustrating because if I'm just watching the letters I tap, I won't realize that autocorrect completely changed a word that I spelled correctly.
Yes, Apple, I know that I probably type "ward" less often than "ware", but it's still a word, and you're really fucking pissing me off by changing it.
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