Posts by outeast@mastodon.green
(DIR) Post #APudRmGGyNMdPYVugi by outeast@mastodon.green
2022-11-22T14:50:44Z
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@benwittorf That tool only has the two variables - language and size. Or is there some bug? I was expecting some kind of questionnaire to narrow things down based on interests and profile or something...
(DIR) Post #AS9EJherF8eyGnARii by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-01-29T21:34:19Z
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@stux Cats know how to to protest. A lesson for us all here
(DIR) Post #ASZllPX7hYLpu54hiy by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-02-11T16:51:37Z
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@grammargirl I have this feeling that some editor was like "everything's in the public domain, haven't you heard of libraries?"
(DIR) Post #AT4KTA87YcSM3ZDCeu by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-02-26T10:23:19Z
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Apparently there's going to be a new Three Musketeers movie with a Black D'Artagnan, and the usual suspects are doing the usual howling about wokeness and ahistoricity and so on. So here's your regular reminder the The Three Musketeers was written by a Black man. Dumas' father was the son of an enslaved African woman and a French Marquis (not a pretty story there), and he rose to become a hero of the French Revolutionary Wars and a General-in-Chief in the French army.
(DIR) Post #ATNyu3HjTsER2ga1GS by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-07T22:14:23Z
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@grammargirl I have no problem with that, I just wish they'd all include measurements the rest of the world used alongside bloody cups. Having to scroll through a ton of blurb is one thing. Having to do it 10+ times just to find a recipe you can use is another.
(DIR) Post #ATsIr57SvweHo8Tbmq by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-22T13:19:18Z
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@grammargirl So good to have the "laughter with tears of joy" emoji, all potential for mistaken sarcasm erased
(DIR) Post #AU5UOmNvaFR7DLNZkO by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-28T21:59:53Z
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@grammargirl The mag where I work just ran a competition kinda thing for readers to tell us about their passions. One wrote about her love of books - and how she makes a tiny copy like this of every book she reads. ❤️
(DIR) Post #AU69KDjQZt1GhYNeO8 by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-29T05:38:29Z
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@grammargirl Crackers aren't generally called biscuits to my knowledge - except insofar as they form part of a selection of biscuits for cheese (if you order or serve cheese and biscuits, the "biscuits" will be mostly crackers). There are savoury biscuits though, such as ones made with cheese (rather than for eating with cheese). I have a pic but the app is glitching & I can't upload any.
(DIR) Post #AU9M4t4vNOccj0eslc by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-30T18:45:24Z
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@grammargirl I don't say it, but I've come to appreciate the way the "incorrect" form amplifies the sentiment by (not) giving a fuck about the pedants.
(DIR) Post #AU9QGvMl62IX6yzlrM by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-30T19:04:30Z
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@grammargirl I started wondering how this all fits, date wise, with "could give a shit/fuck/damn/hoot" and variants thereof (as opposed to the centuries-old explicitly NPI versions). Alas, since Google Books' search by date function finally broke, I don't know of any general, publicly accessible and free corpora.
(DIR) Post #AUAUcfVCUQi2wOeZay by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-03-31T07:55:58Z
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@grammargirl Ah, thank you, that could be useful.
(DIR) Post #AUmvLN8Taun5riscXw by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-04-18T20:44:17Z
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@StillIRise1963 It's corporation vs. corporation. Surely no one went into this thinking Dominion had any interest in anything but the money? Sure, we'd all love to see Fox ground into bankruptcy, and the world would be the better for it. But it's Game of Corporate Thrones. There are no fucking heroes.
(DIR) Post #AUmwmtKm5cLDV3JoFU by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-04-18T21:10:38Z
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@LisaSpartan @StillIRise1963 Well, every scrap of accountability is good, even if it's self-serving. All I meant was that Dominion is primarily in it for their shareholders just like every corporation, and no one should expect otherwise. Even if (if!) the people at the top genuinely see themselves as heroes of democracy, the bottom line will always be the bottom line. It's a megacorp.
(DIR) Post #AVzfTvYWq8kVKyqsaG by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-05-24T21:06:16Z
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@brianonbarrington @Crystal_Fish_Caves @StillIRise1963 Earlier today I was reading about how a KKK resurgence in 1946 was powered by segregationist veterans - people who literally fought the Nazis - energised by (a) uppity black veterans who now felt entitled to equality at home, (b) rhetoric about "while you were fighting, they took your jobs" and (c) influxes of Jewish refugees. They were condemned as unAmerican but also had mainstream support.
(DIR) Post #AVzfzsr8PhhwELnD7I by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-05-24T22:25:47Z
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@grammargirl Brutal! I find it hard to imagine that Benedick is anything other than a contemporary English spelling of Benedict, if not merely Shakespeare's own, especially as Beatrice puns on Carduus Benedictus.
(DIR) Post #AW9pfJMvaQblV25lWi by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-05-29T20:01:15Z
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@mansr @stancarey Pretty much. The examples for the Wiktionary entry are similar, such as Nancy Drew being congratulated for a good solve. The enjoyment in cryptics of course comes from the process of solving them, not the solution itself, so "solution" doesn't have the right meaning. Stan's reference to hearing "solves" doesn't sound like the same thing, though he didn't supply context, but corporate nouning and verbing is an odd beast at times.
(DIR) Post #AWFOYvwDmeBIAM0PMe by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-06-01T12:25:48Z
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@grammargirl Wondered what my dictionaries listed & was surprised to see they point to the *verb* as being the original form. With the added wrinkle that the original sense of the verb became obsolete, the noun shifted its meaning, and then the verb was re-coined from the noun. That's a funner history than I'd expected.
(DIR) Post #AWI8ZSxvyKXWo5v0sa by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-06-02T20:10:42Z
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@grammargirl Might be relevant that they're not quite equivalent constructions? You don't say "over the long time" (or "for a long term"). To me, "long-time" looks odd. But I can see other replies arguing for the reverse, so that's not worth the paper it isn't printed on.
(DIR) Post #AWth2ZZwDNXLs5GQz2 by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-06-20T23:01:18Z
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@grammargirl @Seth These "rules" are decent heuristics to guide language learners, but with a few exceptions ("on a car" seems to be a genuine no-no) they don't stand up to scrutiny. Try a search for "I'm in a plane", "I'm in a bus" etc. and you'll find tons of perfectly good usage examples that break 'em. Plenty of outliers too - "in a tug boat", for example.
(DIR) Post #AX8MMuFuLErqy1llFA by outeast@mastodon.green
2023-06-24T23:18:49Z
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From the other place, a fantastic collection of sick jokes about the sinking of the Titanic from newspapers in 1912. Just in case you thought our jokes about OceanGate's collapsible submarine were a sign of our moral decline... https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1382501127111933954.html