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The Nobel committee should invent “The Special Nobel Prize for Very Special People” and award it to him.

Then when he’s out of office, award the same thing to Obama.

I was about to trot out the old “English needs diacritics argument” but then realised that “reade”, “readd”, “leade” and “leadd” would solve the problem the ways we usually do it.

What if we call it “Smarter Than Trump”?

because some languages allow you to write statements  
    that wrap over multiple lines
        in order to space things out that would
            otherwise be crammed onto one line,
    so for the compiler to know when the statement ends
        a character is needed so that it doesn't think the next line
            is part of the previous;
statement number 2 goes here

Without that semicolon, you might have continued to read “previous statement” which makes sense at first, until the words that follow.

Without the allowance for multiple lines in one statement, that second physical line makes no sense at all, despite the first one making perfect sense on its own.

And without the spacing, the run-on sentence would be a lot harder to read.

Sometimes you have to write code a particular way. Here I was making a point. In a programming language there are other reasons.

Off-topic: I tripped on the (first) name “Cennydd” in the article until my poorly developed Welsh orthography skills kicked in and I realised that that’s pronounced “Kenneth”.

Amusingly, though perhaps not for Cennydd, Google Translate is confused by it and translates it as “Cynthia”.

Wᴀɪᴛ. Wᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ Tɪᴍᴍʏ Jᴏɴᴇꜱ ᴏʀ Tᴏᴍᴍʏ Jᴏɴᴇꜱ?

I did not expect to see a revival of the ancient “Internet Exploder” burn today.

Can totally see this with the little cloud guys from Rejected dancing and saying “yaaay” interjected between each frame.

“For the love of God and all that is holy! My existence is empty!!”

The closest is probably " ʇʇo "

Fun “can’t unsee” fact: The word " off " looks like someone doing the Thriller dance.

This is probably anecdotal / subjective on my part, so take this under advisement, but I feel like that usage is more clearly a slur.

The bit about not knowing the etymology for the “cause to complain” version was me at one point, and I think I might have guessed the origin of the given verb without necessarily connecting it to the noun, despite the similarity.

FWIW, in my dialect there’s also a verb “to gip”, hard g, which is imitative (and so nothing to do with slurs) and means “to dry retch or feel one might be about to”, which is almost never used in the past tense. Hearing it in the past tense, even with a soft g, would make me question everything, which may be another reason why I feel this way.

I had to go check, because I’ve heard a YouTuber use “gin up” a lot and they’re not the sort to use slurs.

At time of writing Wiktionary’s entry on “gin up” doesn’t list it as a slur either, so I’m inclined to believe it isn’t one.

What I think your employers / colleagues may have heard, or confused it with is “gip” / “gyp” (also soft ‘g’), which is an abbreviation of “gypsy” and is generally used to mean “pain” or “a cause to complain”, hence being a slur for travelling folk.

It’s such a weak, ridiculous slur that many people don’t even know its etymology and use it by imitation. It was very common on British TV up to the '90s, for example, and older British folk may still occasionally use it.

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for copy and paste come from non-Unix (I’d say Windows itself, but they may have stolen it from elsewhere), and so it makes sense that those two keys have other special meanings under Unix and its descendants.

Specifically, they mean “Stop what you’re doing” and “The next character is to be entered without special meaning” in most shells, the most common programs that run, often as the main program, in/on a terminal.

As such, most terminal emulators in Linux GUIs reserve those keypresses for their Unix-y functions. Most of the good ones move copy and paste to Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V instead.

MS-DOS and Windows command prompts also inherit their use of Ctrl+C from Unix, by way of 86-DOS and CP/M, and were in there long before Microsoft adopted Ctrl+C for copy in a GUI, which is where those other Insert-based keybinds you mention came in.

For an example of Unix Ctrl+V, try echo hello[Ctrl+V][Ctrl+H]world in a Linux terminal shell and press Enter. You’ll see the command as echo hello^Hworld and when you press Enter, it will display hellworld, because that embedded Ctrl+H is a backspace.

It varies. Right now Crazy by Patsy Cline (technically Willie Nelson, but Patsy made it famous) is what springs immediately to mind. Although I’d prefer an instrumental version because the lyrics don’t quite fit.

On another day, I might pick the Gnarls Barkley song by the same name.

Like many others here, you’re getting my upvote because you’ve expressed a valid opinion, even if I happen to quite like the drink in question.

You get this comment because a bunch of people either don’t get the distinction, or are put off by the profanity. Not really sure which.

Disappointed that “Pork Radio” didn’t make the cut. He must have considered it.

“Suckle” would be my preferred horrific reading.

For reasons I won’t go into, and probably not the first ones you’d think of, “squeal” holds a different negative connotation for me.

Some of us say hard g GIF, but prefer “ess-cue-ell” for SQL.

The former is an acronym and the latter is an initialism, and for me, that’s what makes the distinction. Anything else is secondary.

Was confused for a second, because I don’t generally think of peanuts as having a shell, but then realised that you must mean the outer pod / husk that they’re sometimes sold in. We call the whole things “monkey nuts” here.

… but despite the fact we have a name for the whole thing, we only eat the peanuts inside.

Someone who was 18-25 in 1976 is 68-75 now. I’m not sure how many of them are here in the Fediverse, but I guess if I’m here, who was born around that time, maybe there’s a couple of them lurking.