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Thank you! I’ll see what I can find

I hate that my graphics card has some kind of lights I can’t turn off. I’ve never been interested in any of that stuff

I don’t want to see the EXPLAIN for that query. This person really needs to learn more about sql, I’d wager.

Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask

So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.

Language Jones is a great channel!

I list n to podcasts about science, space, farming, linguistics, and literature. They’re actually rather interesting. I don’t think I could do just random bullshit

I think it’s meant to be fucking scalding which would be AdjAdj at least, but yeah, I still think it’s dumb.

I mostly write ‘indexes’ these days when I’m not on autopilot, in part since not all of my coworkers have a high English proficiency and just following the normal +(e)s plural makes it easier. My brain really does not want me to write ‘matrixes’ however (and indeed, my dictionary in this browser is fine with ‘indexes’ but not ‘matrixes’). I also try not to be pedantic with verbs whose irregular forms have become less common than their “incorrect” (at least when I was taught) forms. “Shined” being one of these, but I am sure there are more.

I’m in my early 40s and still do a bit. Mostly, between a fulltime job, recently buying a house, and farming, I’ve not had time to play much. I did start BG3 but moved in the midst of it and haven’t touched it in months (I’m at the first hub in whatever act has the darkness… Act II, maybe?) I’d love to actually go back to playing some of the games I loved from the late '80s and early '90s since some of those are much easier to pick up and put down. I did play a little bit of TF2 again recently after at least 5 years (probably more) of not really playing it. This winter, I might pick BG3 back up in between house projects.

I’d have to find it first but it’s (a) like incinerated and, if not, (b) has been decomposing for more than 40 years and I doubt works well as a pressure vessel.

I always said “in GIN icks” (gin like the alcohol) based on someone else’s pronunciation years ago. I never realized it was meant to have anything to do with “engine” as a result.

in the jargon of psychological journals from 1990s

Wrong on the when and wrong on the why. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cisgender#etymonline_v_53367

“Stay a while. Stay forever”

For your gandfather, could it be dementia? Personality change, including dropping of inhibitions, can be signs of that.

I’m seeing a screenshot of this so I’m pretty sure she’s alive, but she might be an AI or a zombie.

I think the pitch accent is also different so they’re not even homophones, but I don’t have a dictionary handy

“run” is my favorite.

Run a marathon, run for office, fun a business, run off a copy, melt (like makeup running), and a ton more

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I knew a guy who worked with stuff at Nasa programmed in Ada and who named his daughter Ada :)

Ah, yeah; I was two jobs back then and definitely didn’t have money for game consoles.