Post AwmXQSJAt7Ei9q2qfo by antdude@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Awlud8dNS0xagwYEjI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-02T21:30:32Z
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When people are having a complex conversation and someone uses a big fancy word.And then someone else asks: "What that mean?"And then the person just tells them simply and with no strings and the conversation keeps rolling.For some reason that's the warmest most wonderful safe feeling. When that happens I know I'm in a good place.
(DIR) Post #Awlujz5jKRZb7f4rmy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-02T21:31:46Z
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Because people feel OK using big words, and asking about them and it's not a game.
(DIR) Post #AwluxiEgnHOAtsoXOy by sjpurrs@mastodon.social
2025-08-02T21:34:14Z
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@futurebird I totally agree and there should be so much more of this.
(DIR) Post #Awluyk5LP5wQvQvyim by davep@infosec.exchange
2025-08-02T21:34:22Z
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@futurebird I had something similar to that with a non-native English speaker in a one-on-one solution architecture meeting last week. He didn't understand upstream and downstream relative to a process so I just told him about something floating down a river and how over time it moves through the phases. Two days later I saw he'd used the terms in a diagram, which was lovely.
(DIR) Post #Awlv9TwVlGbM2tvKPw by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2025-08-02T21:36:21Z
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@futurebird How do we drain the twitter teaching that interpersonal relations are a contest of winners and losers?
(DIR) Post #AwlvAoa2W6wYLF33Pk by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-08-02T21:36:32Z
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@futurebird I only had that happen once in a big fancy meeting, when in an answer to a big-shot manager, I said 'It's a conundrum'. He promptly asked me what that was, I told him, and move on. But it was the last question and then they changed to a different topic. Like they were embarrassed for him or something.
(DIR) Post #AwlvuvcMgSZTUN7mT2 by SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-02T21:44:55Z
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@futurebird Hear, here. I like this so much. 😀
(DIR) Post #Awlxd131xKq71fBReC by SudoCat@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-02T22:04:05Z
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@futurebird I love doing this! I work with a lot of people who speak English as a second language, and I love using a horrible amalgamation of slang and archaic english. I always tell people to just ask if I say something that makes no sense.For a lot of these non-native speakers, they've told me they really enjoy getting to learn new words through our conversations. And they share words in their languages with me in return! Sharing words and expanding our vocabulary is great!
(DIR) Post #AwlxtVvcuVlXQwaTdQ by alakest@mstdn.social
2025-08-02T22:07:03Z
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@futurebird This idea was wandering around the same neighborhood. (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
(DIR) Post #Awlz4HjE96naX5UHjM by lisamelton@mastodon.social
2025-08-02T22:20:14Z
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@futurebird This. 💯
(DIR) Post #Awm00XzlpADdmN0UzI by Kalshann@mastodon.social
2025-08-02T22:30:45Z
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@futurebird Pronunciations are part of this for me. There is a special place in my heart for folks who know a word, get it's meaning completely; but have no clue how it's spoken because they only ever read the word. Being comfortable with people to just say "oh, that's how you say it!" is awesome because it's the first time they've had an in person conversation with the word. It might just be an introverted nerd thing, but it's a nice feeling.
(DIR) Post #AwmC8W8zn1ZhnvtB7g by zygous@mastodon.green
2025-08-03T00:46:39Z
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@futurebird I had an embarrassing conversation once when I used the word “moniker”, correctly, but had never said it aloud before and found I’d always misread it. Somehow my brain had transposed the I and K, always, and I assumed it was a word borrowed from French or something. It took a few repetitions before the person I was talking to realised my “monk-ee-ayr”, meant moniker 🤦♂️
(DIR) Post #AwmFkApzkquAaeeJEG by Torkoolguy@mastodon.social
2025-08-03T01:27:06Z
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@futurebird that's practically compathic!!
(DIR) Post #AwmLfzHRNkb3JQsDzs by Rana@sueden.social
2025-08-03T02:33:32Z
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@futurebird Should be a normal moment in a normal conversation. No showing off, no awkwardness, just connection
(DIR) Post #AwmXQSJAt7Ei9q2qfo by antdude@mastodon.social
2025-08-03T04:45:12Z
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@futurebird Like myrmecology? ;)
(DIR) Post #AwmdKsgOVyRpwbdAum by grb090423@mastodon.social
2025-08-03T05:51:26Z
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@futurebird Yes. This! This is how our world should run.
(DIR) Post #Awmk0d9PFhcleyUYWe by ygor@floss.social
2025-08-03T07:06:10Z
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@futurebird We can be more like the characters in children's media.#StrawberryShortcake
(DIR) Post #Awmo6ezNjJyouovwY4 by WingedSnake@mastodon.berlin
2025-08-03T07:52:05Z
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@futurebird exactand i know the group wil have synergectic effects
(DIR) Post #AwnCQnPcWJPPjOLC3U by kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social
2025-08-03T12:24:39Z
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@futurebird True story: met a dude @ a party @ a neighbor/friend’s house. He seemed like the one guy least fitting-in with the collection of guests. Dressed a little less casual than everyone else, etc. Since I am usually the least comfortable one @ a party, I went & engaged w/ him. Asked what he does.“I’m in sales; I sell surfactants.”“What are surfactants?”“They’re chemicals that have a surfactant effect.”“So you don’t know what that word means, either. Have a good eve.”