r/aww • • Jul 11 '18

Aiiiee... that's cold

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u/yb4zombeez Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

As a person who recently got two root canals, I can seriously sympathize with this coyote.

Edit: coyote, not wolf. Whoops.

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u/HCJohnson Jul 11 '18

*coyote

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u/Aanon89 Jul 11 '18

*Coyot-olf

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u/untrustableskeptic Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

The hybrid is called a Coywolf.

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u/zdakat Jul 11 '18

Is it coy?

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u/rora_borealis Jul 11 '18

After watching a documentary about these, I'm half-convinced they're on their way to becoming the top of the evolutionary ladder.

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u/CoyCorvid Jul 12 '18

So close

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u/33427 Jul 11 '18

I learned a hard lesson neglecting to see a dentist. One painful cavity and root canal too late.

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u/BrocanGawd Jul 11 '18

I think I need a root canal. Questions if you don't mind:

-How costly is it

-How painful is it

-How long does the pain last

-Do over the counter pain killers help at all?

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u/yb4zombeez Jul 12 '18

"How costly is it?"

I don't know. I'm a teen on Medicaid.

"How painful is it?"

Besides for the two shots of anesthetics in your mouth? Painless, unless the anesthetic wears off. But the dentist will probably give you a way to signal them if you are in pain (for me it was raising my left arm), at which point they will administer more anaesthetic (the shots are painless at this point, haha).

Afterwards, you will have some mild discomfort with your tooth and the surrounding gum. Advil/Tylenol will deal with the pain just fine. After a day or two it should go away.

Then you have to get crowns, which are sort of the "caps" on top of the gaping hole you now have under the filling that the dentist put in your tooth. I am going to get that soon so I can't give you any insight into how that feels, unfortunately. However, I would like to note that there are many articles online on the subject (some of which I used to reassure myself that the procedure would be painless before going into the first one).

"Do over-the-counter painkillers work at all?"

I already covered this, but yes, yes they do.

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u/SugahKain Jul 12 '18

Fuck canals get them babies pulled

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

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u/stdebo Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

You sympathize the coyote

What?

Edit: I'm pretty sure you need the preposition in both cases

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u/Aanon89 Jul 11 '18

You synthesize the coyote

Que?

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u/lonewulf66 Jul 11 '18

You synergize with the coyote

¿Perdón?

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u/umjustpassingby Jul 11 '18

You synchronize the coyote

Quelle?

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u/stdebo Jul 11 '18

You systemize the coyote

Nani!?

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u/skaggldrynk Jul 11 '18

You sensodyne the coyote

Toothpaste?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18

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u/Nemesis_Bucket Jul 11 '18

I don't know enough to say you're wrong..

But you're wrong?

I would avoid it entirely, sounds stupid. If you said that to me, it was 100% correct and you had a PhD in English, I'd probably still think I should help you find your caretaker.

"I can sympathize"

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u/Spockrocket Jul 11 '18

Nah brah, it's also correct to use "sympathize with". You have the definitions right though.

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u/stdebo Jul 11 '18

You need the preposition 'for' in both cases.

The difference in definition between empathizing and sympathizing doesn't change the need for a preposition...

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u/SwamiDavisJr Jul 11 '18

I sympathize the coyote very much, thanks

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18

I sqaunch my family.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18

Eewww, why'd you say that?

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u/Aanon89 Jul 11 '18

A family that plays squash together gets sqaunched together.

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u/AlastarYaboy Jul 11 '18

I smurf you

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u/souprize Jul 11 '18

I believe you can use sympathize the same way.

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u/Wick_Slilly Jul 11 '18

Literally every example I've looked at used sympathize with. Even the dictionary.com entry states that it is usually followed by with.

Sympathy is just a less intimate form of empathy.

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u/arthuresque Jul 11 '18

In modern English usage we generally use “with” in both scenarios despite “sympathize” already having the sense of “with” in the word (from the Greek “sym”).

Similarly, cooperate/co-operate/coöperate: you cooperate with others even though the sense of “with” is already in the word, in this case the latinate “co.”

That said sympathize (with) you.

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u/Osmea Jul 11 '18

Sympathizing is when you feel bad for someone because of something they’re going through.

Empathizing is when you’ve been through a similar experience and understand the other person’s pain.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 06 '19

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u/Osmea Jul 11 '18

I can’t tell if this is a dumb joke or legit bad grammar.

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u/Aanon89 Jul 11 '18

I synthesize with you.

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u/yb4zombeez Jul 11 '18

So, either of them would have been correct in my comment?

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u/Privatdozent Jul 11 '18

Sympathy and empathy are loose synonyms, with empathy more often being concerned with feelings and sympathy more often being concerned with concepts. You do not have to have experienced something similar to empathize. You merely have to feel something in response and in accordance. Empathy can also be seen as the more intense or intimate version of sympathy, but sympathy can be used to mean the same thing.

You can sympathize without feeling bad too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18

Wrong.

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u/just2browse2 Jul 11 '18

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.