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(DIR) Post #AaIxaZTk2MvmVVpnLk by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T21:10:49Z
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I am constantly surprised by being wrong about what other people understand.TIL my husband did not know the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" contains all the letters in the alphabet.
(DIR) Post #AaIxi2fRucP13tsBNY by dszp@infosec.exchange
2023-09-30T21:12:08Z
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@grammargirl it doesn’t! You have to use “jumps” to get the “s” :-)
(DIR) Post #AaIxkRpBLlilfEZYjg by jensilber@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T21:12:36Z
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@grammargirl One of the many random things that I learned from a kids' book (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler in this case)
(DIR) Post #AaIxmd2ecDiD26uiye by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T21:13:01Z
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@dszp Arg! I got it wrong.
(DIR) Post #AaIxpjnlwFU8rqR44m by cjlemire@wandering.shop
2023-09-30T21:13:33Z
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@grammargirl WHUT?! That's the entire point of that sentence.
(DIR) Post #AaIxs7Au0cKdw9O72O by dszp@infosec.exchange
2023-09-30T21:14:01Z
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@grammargirl I only spotted it because it’s confused me before so I’ve had to learn to be careful and double check it! That is a weird thing not to know at all though; I thought it was common knowledge. But I’m also wrong about that plenty!
(DIR) Post #AaIxws5nVoX4bkGhXM by DaSkinny1@newsie.social
2023-09-30T21:14:52Z
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@grammargirlOld school typing practice.#DamnImOld
(DIR) Post #AaIyZcrM57ngeozb96 by SergKoren@writing.exchange
2023-09-30T21:21:51Z
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@grammargirl I learned the best questions to ask in a business meeting are the ones people think they know the answers.
(DIR) Post #AaIysmFVObPfHSQ95M by AvenSarah@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T21:25:17Z
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@grammargirl Recently there was a NYT crossword with a theme of "sesquipedalian" words and the comments were full of people who'd never heard of the big theme word, "antidisestablishmentarianism" (and were mad about it). I know it's an obscure word, but I'd thought all crosswordish people would have learned it as the factoid of the "longest word in the English language" as a kid. Though not its meaning, of course! 😆 So yeah, same here -- often wrong about others' knowledge!
(DIR) Post #AaIyu9tqwrC0vCx4HA by billyjoebowers@mastodon.online
2023-09-30T21:25:33Z
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@grammargirl Did he not wonder what it was about?
(DIR) Post #AaIzC7bcDUWX1EzEVk by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T21:28:49Z
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@AvenSarah I would have thought everyone doing they NYT crossword would know about "antidisestablishmentarianism" too.
(DIR) Post #AaIzGVVfHfNiJYIK00 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T21:29:35Z
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@billyjoebowers I guess not. He says he thinks he has seen it, but only in passing — never wondered what the point was.
(DIR) Post #AaIzYXG3WTBwwtadt2 by AvenSarah@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T21:32:47Z
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@grammargirl Yeah -- there were also a lot of complaints about "obstreperous" which I just use in daily life, tbh (but then my family is odd and very language-focused). A good reminder not to assume, I guess!(I of course learned "a quick brown fox etc." when I was learning touch typing... I guess now that people don't learn that as much, it may be dropping out of style? 🤷♀️ )
(DIR) Post #AaIzc1AWlt74aIfHG4 by lerekofatwgo@mastodon.online
2023-09-30T21:33:29Z
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@grammargirl Well, you know the xkcd philosophy and all... (see: https://xkcd.com/1053/ )But thanks to your post, I learned this today! I've been pretty much glued to a computer for the past 25 years, yet it never occurred to me.
(DIR) Post #AaIzdGpe1OkrS7UhXM by TheTiGuR@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T21:33:44Z
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@grammargirl https://xkcd.com/1053/The joy of teaching someone something that supposedly everyone knows
(DIR) Post #AaJ0AxUcQkBRJqiuI4 by DervPerv@mastodon.cloud
2023-09-30T21:39:48Z
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@grammargirl This is so beautiful.
(DIR) Post #AaJ0DT7HpEDDyf0Ta4 by Pikestreet@ohai.social
2023-09-30T21:40:14Z
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@grammargirl I only know it from the drill scene in the movie Stripes.
(DIR) Post #AaJ4HTTqoVlk55j6uG by SeumanOtwal@social.vivaldi.net
2023-09-30T22:25:42Z
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@grammargirl — You presumably know there are shorter sentences that achieve the same thing. The “quick fox” requires 35 letters. “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow”, a sentence beloved of typeface sellers, does it in 29.And I’ve just been freshly reminded that there’s a sentence that does the job in a mere 26, albeit using archaic words: “Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz,” which means “Carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person.”
(DIR) Post #AaJ50YVwwdBiizCkim by LetsBuild@famichiki.jp
2023-09-30T22:33:09Z
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@grammargirl Mine tried to use a fluffy duster to clean the kitchen countertops, so there’s that too.
(DIR) Post #AaJ6wGReNrltQwH7S4 by ShariBaby@c.im
2023-09-30T22:55:36Z
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@grammargirl Or another example might be how I don't know what "TIL" means. Haha
(DIR) Post #AaJ7jnjvNq7isvRZnU by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T23:04:33Z
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@ShariBaby Sorry! "TIL" means "today I learned."
(DIR) Post #AaJ7tslzWa8nOKDYI4 by jmccyoung@mstdn.social
2023-09-30T21:33:46Z
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@billyjoebowers @grammargirl Years ago someone on an email list I was on had as his signature file, "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" and probably 10 years later I learned it was another pangram. I had just thought it was a cool sentence.
(DIR) Post #AaJ7tu7IWqmJYhC58i by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T23:06:20Z
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@jmccyoung @billyjoebowers It is a cool sentence.
(DIR) Post #AaJ7z4jeTbb1wJbELg by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-30T23:07:19Z
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@billyjoebowers He thinks he had seen it in passing, but never much thought about what it meant or why it was there.
(DIR) Post #AaJ83Dpua6JBK9VMHo by billyjoebowers@mastodon.online
2023-09-30T23:08:03Z
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@grammargirl @jmccyoung I yell it at people in the grocery store all the time but I didn't know about the alphabet thing.
(DIR) Post #AaJAtHkhT0EgR51KgS by Saposcat@mendeddrum.org
2023-09-30T23:39:49Z
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@grammargirl I know the phrase but it would have taken me time to remember the significance. I probably would have mistaken it for one of those King Philip Came Over From English Soil type sentences.
(DIR) Post #AaJMUvugD9SBCeqJlo by overholt@glammr.us
2023-10-01T01:49:55Z
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@grammargirl I composed a pangram once, and I’m kind of proud of it. “Quixotic Lazarus just can't keep firmly buried within his grave."
(DIR) Post #AaJlkjLZCKbTiV347c by pharsicle@aus.social
2023-10-01T06:32:53Z
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@grammargirl I have a saying for that situation: “All ignorance is relative.”I had once assumed incorrectly that everybody (i.e. my wife) knows that cuckoos are parasitic.(Lack of knowledge and ignorance are perhaps different things. You might have made a podcast episode on that ;-)
(DIR) Post #AaKNrER6Jmuc8NAF4i by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-10-01T13:39:52Z
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@LingLass You're right. He never took a typing class.
(DIR) Post #AaKNuNTJBFXl1ghG5Y by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-10-01T13:40:27Z
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@overholt Wow, that's a good one!
(DIR) Post #AaKOONqgLLQ4snwBkm by PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social
2023-10-01T13:45:51Z
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@grammargirl I can still type that one with my eyes closed! 11th grade typing class, 1980. My mom, a secretary, made me take it. I got a D, lol. (Have improved a lot since then!)
(DIR) Post #AaKRXIDAyHVvrtOmUi by Karendipitee@mastodon.social
2023-10-01T14:21:02Z
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@grammargirl That was the example used repeatedly when I was learning to write cursive and they don’t teach that anymore. But I am surprised to hear people don’t know it.
(DIR) Post #AaKdnLI8UE8xVJ8d2O by watcherofcats@mastodon.social
2023-10-01T16:38:24Z
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@grammargirl I didn’t know this, either, but I also never took a typing class.
(DIR) Post #AaLJ4TTXPNpBvgl8Ai by Silvermoon@ohai.social
2023-10-02T00:20:57Z
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@grammargirl I learned that phrase in touch typing class in high school. One of the most useful classes I ever took, TBH. (Also, we used manual typewriters with the levers to move down to the next line and back to the beginning of the line, which were old at the time.) Just asked my son (aged 21) and he said he learned that sentence in keyboarding class.