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Well there's a phrase I didn't expect to hear, well, ever

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a thousand dollars!

Why is the US hesitant to just legally mandate a specific charger like is done in Europe and Oceania with CCS2? I suppose this does help a little bit to remedy the bizarre charging landscape there, though I can't help but wonder if this whole thing could've been avoided...

Linguist here, if I may share my 2¢.

We do know that even over a thousand years ago, speakers of Old English were still calling these kinds of fruits berries, such as strawberries and blackberries (although pronunciation differed somewhat, of course). A word for strawberry as "earth berry" is even reconstructed for the proto Germanic language around 1500 to 2500 years ago. Beyond that, it becomes difficult to trace the word berry any further.

The Botanical sense of the word berry seems to come largely from at earliest the 1500s, from the writings of Caesalpinus, although the definitions were inconsistent and later writings on the matter constantly redefined things and added new terms. Although, largely, these writings all used Latinate terms for their botanical concepts, such as bacca (the closest to the modern botanical berry), and also words like pomum (pome/pomme), drupe, etc. for the other categories of fruit.

So, somewhere since all of that, some English-speaking botanist decided it would be a good idea to use the word berry to describe this concept of a bacca (even though berries had been used for distinctly different things from what that concept described), and now we end up in our current silly predicament where strawberries aren't berries but pumpkins are.

I'd propose we call botanical berries "bayes" or "bayfruit", the word bay/baye being an alternate word for berry that ultimately derived from the Latin word bacca, via Old French.

At this price point, I'd probably recommend either the Samsung Galaxy A23 or A14, or the Nokia G60 or G42.

Just a black cross with blue field above and white field below, essentially the current flag with the middle black band as a cross. Also effectively a less reich-y version of the last one in this list.

A Spinoff CRPG Final Fantasy game would actually be really interesting, and a funny way to go full circle with how much the original FF1 drew from the likes of DnD.

They have taken the series too far into MMO land, and need to go back to focusing on a good story

You say that as though FF14 doesn't have one of the best stories of modern Final Fantasy games.

I'll be honest, I had to channel an American accent in my head to make sense of this one, I was quite confused for a moment.

Hisuian balls are really beautiful, I love the handcrafted vibe they give off, it's how I always imagined the traditional apricorn balls looking in Johto.

That said, I'm a sucker for the basic pokeball, that's all I ever really use in games. Beyond that, I do have a fondness for the designs level ball and the lure ball, specifically, they have really nice patterns and colours.

One glitch I came upon was in gen 2 when I had tried to clone one of my pokémon. I ended up creating a chimaera between my Arcanine and my Golduck. Sometimes it would appear as a water type Arcanine with Golduck's moves, and sometimes as a fire type Golduck with Arcanine's moves. So I suppose in a way, back in the day I had accidentally created the mythical water type Arcanine that everybody now seems to want as a regional form! I've had a water type Arcanine before regional forms were cool!

I think it makes perfect sense for groups like these, that will potentially have a lot of official accounts under one umbrella. A bit like an unofficial official badge, knowing a profile comes from a certain instance gives it a sort of credibility.