thanks for the info, Fhash Ahash
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
yup yup yup
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
TIL there are a lot of signs similar to the sharp sign, and a lot of names for them! i already sorta kinda knew abt "octothorp" (tho i couldn't actually remember it, which is why i looked all this up)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
foctothorp
when i'm canada the recorded voice when calling places say "number sign"
when in the us, they say "pound"
some odd exceptions in the us, because murica
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
says*
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
yeah I know a few teachers and they've all brought up the flat/hashtag thing to me, totally exasperated
what do those kids think of the "phone" icon on their smartphones?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
flat/hashtag would actually be exasperating
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
flattag
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
The sharp sign is obviously not a hash/pound sign
♯ vs #
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
i used to use an actual sharp sign for my dn but people wanted all my pithy comments to be searchable
#fanservice
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
btw any media outlets not properly diacriticizing Spanish names (let alone French, or Vietnamese) in 2018 needs to get their acts together, you look illiterate when you write "Bogota"
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
Bah-GOAT-uh, Columbia
I just realized that when I used to notate music I never wrote the sharp slanting the right way.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
you really don't have to
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
I can definitely hear when it isn't slanting tbf
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
it's less sharp right?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
btw any media outlets not properly diacriticizing Spanish names (let alone French, or Vietnamese) in 2018 needs to get their acts together, you look illiterate when you write "Bogota"― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)
Yes, and there's a big difference between "año" and "ano," NY Times Crossword editor
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
you guys are ripping nytimes a new ano
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/03_QT_Symbols-500x171.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
waht
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
quartertones baby
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vZURdhucM
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Llpd%2B1%C2%BD.svg/164px-Llpd%2B1%C2%BD.svg.pngmicrotone4lyfe
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
What is this madness.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
it's where the fun starts
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
I approve.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
cof break fellas
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
It's a gateway drug and it inevitably leads to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxBlj-R8OQ
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
or that metal dude imago likes
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
"Wins the internet"--track down whoever came up with that idiocy.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
wins iirc
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
People Who Have Won the Internet
People who deftly dramatize and inhabit the internet; people who have read the whole thing; people who determine the rules of internet engagement. There aren’t a lot of them but there are too many to name–so maybe it is time we started a list. I will offer my top five: Molly Lambert, Julian Assange, Tavi, Andrey Ternovskiy, and Ned Raggett.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
twitter explodes
― omar little, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
A tad immodest from Ned there tbh.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link
Whatever. This. Is. Called.
Stupidest. Thing. Ever.
(This has probably been mentioned already, but I don't know how to search it.)
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
pseudo frenchisms like oui'd, heaux etc
seriously wtf
― groovemaaan, Friday, 23 November 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
That thing where people say "[something like 'no one cares'/'whatever you say'], Karen/Carol/Generic Unhip White Woman Name" to condescendingly call bullshit on something.
― triggercut, Friday, 23 November 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
It seems like a bad fusion of the concept of emotional labor in the workplace and unpaid domestic labor at home.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, October 23, 2017 12:23 PM (one year ago)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/
HOCHSCHILD SPEAKS
Beck: Okay, so that was the lightning round. Thank you for doing that. It’s interesting because it seems like people are trying to have an important conversation about the work that women are expected to do outside of their jobs, about the way they have to smooth social interactions, or sometimes it’s about having to remember all this stuff for the household, or sometimes in the office. Or about just chores? And all of these things are getting kind of smooshed together and being called emotional labor, as far as I can tell.Hochschild: I agree. We’re trying to have an important conversation but having it in a very hazy way, working with [ a] blunt concept. I think the answer is to be more precise and careful in our ideas and to bring this conversation into families and to the office in a helpful way.If you have an important conversation using muddy ideas, you cannot accomplish your purpose. You won’t be understood by others. And you won’t be clear to yourself. That’s what’s going on. It’d be like going to a bad therapist—“Well, just try to have a better day tomorrow.” You’re doing the right thing, you’re seeking help, but you’re not getting clarification and communicating clearly. It can defeat the purpose; it can backfire.
Hochschild: I agree. We’re trying to have an important conversation but having it in a very hazy way, working with [ a] blunt concept. I think the answer is to be more precise and careful in our ideas and to bring this conversation into families and to the office in a helpful way.
If you have an important conversation using muddy ideas, you cannot accomplish your purpose. You won’t be understood by others. And you won’t be clear to yourself. That’s what’s going on. It’d be like going to a bad therapist—“Well, just try to have a better day tomorrow.” You’re doing the right thing, you’re seeking help, but you’re not getting clarification and communicating clearly. It can defeat the purpose; it can backfire.
― j., Tuesday, 27 November 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
when 'automatic' is used instead of 'instant', or thereabouts. for example, in the context of a game, or something: "if you roll a 4, that's an automatic lose". NO! there is no automation here.
also, this is very much a regional english thing, but i'm noticing a lot of yorkshire/lancashire folks developing a trend of omitting prepositions:"I'm going Tesco""Wanna go cinema but not sure what to see""Anyone going Thee Oh Sees tonight?"
*to*. you're going *TO*. your words. use them.
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
telegraphic language is damned easy to misunderstand, but the tendency toward terseness appears to inhere in our ever more technological and complex culture. at some point this kind of lossy compression will collide with the ever increasing complexity and specificity of modern capitalism and create so much drag and inefficiency that the whole apparatus will cease to function. I already see signs of this happening.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Examples
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
❆❆❆❆ ↺ ㋛ ☏
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
tbh most ppl use too many words
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix.iemoji.com/images/emoji/apple/ios-11/256/thumbs-down.png
thread load bollocks usual
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Beginning sentences with "Am" rather than I'm or I am is currently grinding my gears.
― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
will try to dial it back chief.
― j., Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
in the context of a game, or something: "if you roll a 4, that's an automatic lose". NO! there is no automation here.
i think it's specifically ok in the context of a game, where the rules are the mechanics of the game. so as an adjective, automatic works fine.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
doesn't mean it can't bother you, though.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link