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Happy #Caturday

Happy #Caturday

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I have once again been defeated by Twitter. I try uploading something, it fails, I cancel. Then I upload it again. Result: 2 versions of the same thing. Grr.

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This is the text from my Old English class, the story of a bear (Osweald) who has adventures in medieval England along with his friend Æþelstan, a mouse.

If you're interested in exploring Old English, this text is (will be) an easy, graduated (and fun!) way to get started.

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Excellent short thread that breaks down many (most? all?) language commentary that's posted on social media.

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Why is it so hard to customize the context menu in Windows (11)? It seems (?) to require either registry hacking or 3rd-party utilities. In particular, not every tool I install needs to be in my right-click life, grr.

Jen Gentleman 🌺, am I overlooking some built-in util?

A periodic plea to ask software developers NOT to call their installer setup.exe. Your product has a name—use it proudly.

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Friday words!

Complications, horology, and some other new-to-me words from world of clocks and watches.

mikepopewords.com/2024/03/01/fri…

It's surprising that this simple observation has attracted so much attention.

The premise of the criticism is that 'the dictionary has changed the rules of English,' which is wrong, following on 'you can't end a sentence with a preposition,' which is also wrong.

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So, cauda is Latin for 'tail'.

In everyday speech, it became cōda – from this, via Italian, English gets 'coda'.

In Old French, cōda became cue – and from the Normans' word for 'tail', English gets 'queue'.

Moreover, a cuard, someone who turns tail and runs, gives us 'coward'.