word of the day
Fri Sep 20 11:27:57 EDT 2019
I just unsubscribed from dictionary.com's Word of the Day email. They've changed their email to have just the word and a definition. If you want to see the etimology you now have to click a link back to their site. I don't want to visit their site. Their emails had already gotten bloated with links and ads. Now they've dropped the most interesting part of the (alleged) content. And I've dropped them.
Not long back they stopped giving multiple definitions for words that have multiple meanings; also not OK with me.
This matches my dislike for sites that promise x-number things that blah blah, and then each thing requires clicking to a new page (and new ads) and waiting to load. If I follow your link and find only one thing from your promised list, unless it's really, really good I'm going to just close the page. I have better things to do with my time than waiting for pages to load and ignoring ads for products I don't need and don't want.
Friday 23:00
Jillian Nickell
One of the things I like about the Internet is the serendipity of searches. In a news interview I heard the expression "damp squib". I looked it up, and I had intuited the meaning, but I also found the frequent mis-hearing "damp squid" - doubly strange because people should expect squids to be damp. "Damp squid" topped a top 10 misquoted phrases in Britain list. (All 10 were on the page.)
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1089564.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
I just unsubscribed from dictionary.com's Word of the Day email. They've changed their email to have just the word and a definition. If you want to see the etimology you now have to click a link back to their site. I don't want to visit their site. Their emails had already gotten bloated with links and ads. Now they've dropped the most interesting part of the (alleged) content. And I've dropped them.
Not long back they stopped giving multiple definitions for words that have multiple meanings; also not OK with me.
This matches my dislike for sites that promise x-number things that blah blah, and then each thing requires clicking to a new page (and new ads) and waiting to load. If I follow your link and find only one thing from your promised list, unless it's really, really good I'm going to just close the page. I have better things to do with my time than waiting for pages to load and ignoring ads for products I don't need and don't want.
Friday 23:00
Jillian Nickell
One of the things I like about the Internet is the serendipity of searches. In a news interview I heard the expression "damp squib". I looked it up, and I had intuited the meaning, but I also found the frequent mis-hearing "damp squid" - doubly strange because people should expect squids to be damp. "Damp squid" topped a top 10 misquoted phrases in Britain list. (All 10 were on the page.)
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1089564.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]