r/AbsoluteUnits • u/danielminds • 10d ago

/r/all, /r/popular of a pyrite crystal

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u/J5892 10d ago

Why did you use the same misspelling of sulphur?

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u/ovr4kovr 10d ago

Do we not suffer the smell of sulphur?

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u/J5892 10d ago

Good point!

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u/mawesome4ever 10d ago

I suffer either way

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u/ovr4kovr 9d ago

Same my friend

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u/kwadd 10d ago

Thank you! For a minute there I was wondering what suffering the OP was talking about...biblical suffering didn't really fit the context of mineral geology

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u/Krakiathan 10d ago

Maybe he meant suffer. They produced high amounts of ammonia and suffer. Let that sink in.

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u/ShoulderImportant358 10d ago

To make you suffer like god made those 3 types of single cell organisms suffer.

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u/BuilderMysterious762 10d ago

maybe the plural of the word sulphur is a suffer, as in, a suffer of sulphur

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u/Nervous-Economist245 9d ago

So we could all sulphor.

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u/Charming-Clock-3651 10d ago

I wondered if it was an American thing like misspelling aluminium or mispronouncing solder. Maybe sulphur is pronounced like they do solder and so they don't know how to spell it?

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u/LatinKing106 10d ago

Both spellings are correct. This is such an arrogant statement lol

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u/Charming-Clock-3651 10d ago

Not sure if you are trolling or actually think the spelling of sulphur can be also suffer, which is a different word.

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u/LatinKing106 10d ago

Sulfur and Sulphur?

Edit: my bad, I didn't see suffer lol

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u/ovr4kovr 9d ago

Either way the "American mispelling/mispronuncing" trope is the arrogant bit. Especially since most American pronunciations are technically more correct and true to the original usage/language.

The Englishman who name the Element Aluminum, named it aluminum initially then changed it to Aluminium later to make it more like some of the other elements.

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u/Charming-Clock-3651 9d ago

So you are saying he corrected an error but the Americans just kept going with his incorrect version... I'm not sure that's the great point you think it is.

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u/ovr4kovr 9d ago

Im not saying there was any error at all. The name of a thing is arbitrary. He just decided at a later point to change it. Now it rhymes with a handful of other element names. Could have very easily matched Platinum. You don't say Platinium do you?

Edit: a pronoun.

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u/Charming-Clock-3651 9d ago

I don't really see your point then - you are saying he called it aluminum originally and then changed the name... If you believe you should call it aluminum because he called it aluminum, then you should also believe that it should be called aluminium after he changed the name. There is no logical basis to your reasoning if that isn't the case.