22:08 Saturday 21 August 2021

Cleveland already has a team called the Guardians?
A roller-derby team?

I can understand overlooking roller derby, but how do you rename a major-league team and not first find out that the domain name is already taken?

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Wed Dec 19 00:09:43 EST 2018

So, if you use they/them/their/theirs for an individual of unspecified gender, what do you do with the verb? Do you make it plural, to match the pronoun, or do you keep it singular, to match the subject?

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10/1/2018 2:50 PM

The initial version is NOT the initial revision.

This is an annoyance from our timecard system (for starters), which labels our initial submissions revision #1. The initial version is Not a revision. A revision is a change. You can't have any changes if there's only one version. (If you insist on numbering it as a revision, it ( Read more... )

Fri Sep 21 08:41:58 EDT 2018

We could use left (“), center ("), and right quotes (”) to indicate 3 different speakers in a conversation.
Hmmm, those don't look so different in this font. There's also (❝) and (❞). And («) and (»).

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Mon Jul 23 22:47:09 EDT 2018

How many Presidents/Prime Ministers/Premiers/etc of non-English=speaking contries do or don't speak English?

How much is command of English an indicator of societal/intellectual/financial/? accomplishment?

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Why do we still speak of "footage" when almost all recordings are now digital, and there is no film or tape?

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Sun May 13 03:07:35 EDT 2018

There is no substitute for finding exactly the right word for what you want to say. ☺

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Fri Apr 20 2:46 EDT 2018

Why don't the IM apps have a toilet emoji?

When we have 7+-hour conference calls, people need potty breaks. A little toilet icon would say all that's needed. (They could add a red one for urgent ( Read more... )

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