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Verb form and tense mistakes really wind me up for some reason!
- Hast not ye all
- The pastor and thee churn butter
- Thy chaste belly
(And if you’re going to use hast not ye all, be consistent eyes I danced not with the devil and I jig and frig not).
Thank you for coming to my extremely amateur but extremely picky TED talk.
egrets@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8English36·4 days agoThere’s an optional “tabbed interface” in View > User Interface that’s a lot like the Office ribbon. Like the Office ribbon, it has context-sensitive additional tabs, and you can enable a compact version that shows less but takes up less vertical space.
I’ve not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.
egrets@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Amtrak will let you attach your own private car to one of their trains and they charge you per a mileEnglish4·5 days agoThis is also how the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in the UK and Calais in France works, sans any amenities other than a toilet. Drive on, get taken under the strait, and drive off at the other side.
egrets@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection1·5 days agoA society predominantly attended by hobbits.
egrets@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGNEnglish1·1 month agoI can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:
- They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
- They named their lightweight extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
- They called their application framework “the .NET framework”, despite .net already being a popular TLD.
- They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
- They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
- Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
- They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.
I honestly think this is the most common scenario. Both people who self-describe as bi and pan will have varying preferences, and I think it’s typically more about audience and communication than any universally definable difference.
This is similar to how a binary bi or pan person who tends to date people of the same sex or gender might self-describe as gay; they’re not creating a binding contract when they do so, rather they’re providing an easily-digestible description of their sexual or romantic character to others.