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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Gregg shorthand class, but I don't know anybody who took it.
I'm left-handed but mouse right-handed. This my moused signature something like this:
#polishinsidejokes
I thought
isit was dupa (at least phonetically).
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@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
I was saying that I thought the word for ass is dupa.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
I was saying that I thought the word for ass is dupa.
It is. But of course it can have some 15 different forms depending on context. Because Polish.
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Elon Musk uses his baby's name as his password.
No - wait; the other way round...
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
I was saying that I thought the word for ass is dupa.
It is. But of course it can have some 15 different forms depending on context. Because Polish.
Growing up I thought it was Russian but then none of my Russian coworkers knew what it meant.
I learned it from my step-mother who was Eastern Orthodox and she suspects that (great-?)grandparents may have been Jewish but converted for self-preservation. There were a few other words but that is the only one I still remember.
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@Karla kurwa? (probably with silly lines on, under, or through letters)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla kurwa? (probably with silly lines on, under, or through letters)
Other words were like wash-cloth and I was told that dupa was butt (rather than ass). More innocent words.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
I was saying that I thought the word for ass is dupa.
It is. But of course it can have some 15 different forms depending on context. Because Polish.
It's the same in Russian and probably other Slavic languages, as well as other languages in general. Latin has the same sort of thing
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Other words were like wash-cloth
"Szmata", I guess? Careful with that, because it has a second meaning roughly equivalent to a bitch/whore.
I was told that dupa was butt (rather than ass).
I'd say "dupa" is somewhere between "butt" and "ass" - it's not weaksauce profanity, but it's not especially strong either.
Edit: "dupa" can also mean girlfriend, as in "to moja dupa" = "she's my bitch". It can also mean a pretty girl in general. Either way, it's not recommended to use in vicinity of the person in question.
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This is slightly off-topic; it's not from today, but it's recent and I just saw it today:
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Looks like the cops chose to settle with the victims of an ill-advised, unnecessary drug raid:
The "wet marijuana plant material" was actually loose tea that Adlynn Harte favored. Burns later confessed that he had never seen loose tea before but thought, based on his training and experience, that it looked like marijuana leaves.
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Future car nut:
Also, please ignore the horrible way in which they covered the boy's face in the picture - it almost looks like they stuck something on his face while it is likely the worst Photoshop job imaginable.
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told the trooper he had taken his parents' car after getting into an argument with his mother, who told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini
"He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 dollars in his wallet," the UHP said.His mother should have driven him to the nearest luxury car store, and told him he's totally free to get in and buy one with his own money.
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@JBert You mean he wasn't really being haunted by the ghost of a cheese Danish that photobombed the article?
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@hungrier Not that the censoring might help much. Now there are Tweets showing how he got spoiled by having a ride in a real Lamborghini:
Then again, he didn't crash into anyone. Those modern SUVs do seem to drive themselves these days.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not that the censoring might help much.
His face does indeed look like a cheese.
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A claimant has filed for the bankruptcy of Dutch clothing chain C&A over an unpaid bill of €30k.
Expectation is that it will not come that far, and that the owner will not risk bankruptcy over such a small sum. However many small companies suffer from large companies leaving bills aside until it deigns them to pay, with policies like "Bills are paid on the last day of the second quarter after they are received".
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Not quite enough horribleness there. Slap a git
CLIGUI on that puppy and we're getting somewhere.FTFY
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla Attorney General Hole in the Ass.
I was saying that I thought the word for ass is dupa.
It is. But of course it can have some 15 different forms depending on context. Because Polish.
It's the same in Russian and probably other Slavic languages, as well as other languages in general. Latin has the same sort of thing
"It" being declension and it is a typical feature of Indo-European languages. Germanic languages usually lost it to some extent (German itself still has der/den/dem/des and the -n suffix for some nouns), with English being (of course) the vanguard. Pronouns (me/him/her/its/them) and whom are the last vestiges.
In this particular case, the case is locative (because it's the location where the hole is).
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
So what does this say? I'm not really coming up with anything that makes sense by trying to match parts to a reference sheet I found.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
told the trooper he had taken his parents' car after getting into an argument with his mother, who told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini
"He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 dollars in his wallet," the UHP said.His mother should have driven him to the nearest luxury car store, and told him he's totally free to get in and buy one with his own money.
Even worse, people are rewarding his improper action by offering to give him a ride in their own Lambos.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
told the trooper he had taken his parents' car after getting into an argument with his mother, who told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini
"He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 dollars in his wallet," the UHP said.His mother should have driven him to the nearest
luxurytoy car store, and told him he's totally free to get in and buy one with his own money.Hot Wheels has Lamborghini models.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
C&A
Didn't realise C&A was still a thing. They disappeared from the UK years ago, I figured they'd gone out of business.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
So what does this say? I'm not really coming up with anything that makes sense by trying to match parts to a reference sheet I found.
It’s my name in Gregg Shorthand
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
So what does this say? I'm not really coming up with anything that makes sense by trying to match parts to a reference sheet I found.
It’s my name in Gregg Shorthand
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What sorcery is this?!
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Elon Musk uses his baby's name as his password.
No - wait; the other way round...
I wonder if there is any registry office rule that names have to be printable characters. If "Belle" is legal,
\x07
should be fine.\N{ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER}
might be stretching it a bit.
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No sledge hammers, no weighted scythe, no DU machete?
Mein sohn, ich bin ein disappointen!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there is any registry office rule that names have to be printable characters.
http://www.avss.ucsb.edu/MANUALS/Handbook.pdf (marked-)pp103
Unacceptable entries
Unacceptable entries:
- pictographs – a picture, e.g., ☺
- ideograms – a picture or symbol that represents a thing or an idea, but
not a particular word or phrase for it, e.g., ⇑ - diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, ç
.. though technically nothing about ligatures..
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, çSo all foreign names are illegal?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
So all foreign names are illegal?
It's California.
Quite a few things there are illegal. And if it's not illegal, it causes cancer.
INB4:
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there is any registry office rule that names have to be printable characters.
http://www.avss.ucsb.edu/MANUALS/Handbook.pdf (marked-)pp103
Unacceptable entries
Unacceptable entries:
- pictographs – a picture, e.g., ☺
- ideograms – a picture or symbol that represents a thing or an idea, but
not a particular word or phrase for it, e.g., ⇑ - diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, ç
.. though technically nothing about ligatures..
How about apostrophes? I know the USPS prohibits them in place names.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there is any registry office rule that names have to be printable characters.
http://www.avss.ucsb.edu/MANUALS/Handbook.pdf (marked-)pp103
Unacceptable entries
Unacceptable entries:
- pictographs – a picture, e.g., ☺
- ideograms – a picture or symbol that represents a thing or an idea, but
not a particular word or phrase for it, e.g., ⇑ - diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, ç
.. though technically nothing about ligatures..
How about apostrophes? I know the USPS prohibits them in place names.
Martha's Vineyard in the state of Massachusetts, Ike's Point in New Jersey, John E's Pond in Rhode Island, Carlos Elmer's Joshua View in Arizona, and Clark's Mountain in Oregon
(yes, there's only 5 according to google)
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
What sorcery is this?!
It’s amazing what you can do with TeX and METAPOST.
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
So what does this say? I'm not really coming up with anything that makes sense by trying to match parts to a reference sheet I found.
It’s my name in Gregg Shorthand
Ah, okay. I have reverse-engineered your name, then. Your last name was obvious, I had a lucky guess for your first name, and I got your middle name based mainly on the length. The middle name is very close, but the site shows the third loop as being attached at the bottom, instead of the loop being attached at the top and hanging down as you have shown. I tried several variant spellings, but they all give wildly different shapes, so I'm suspecting that there's a slight difference in the versions you used and the site uses. Also, it doesn't have the slanted equals sign underneath each word.
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
steno: Gregg
TIL.
Also found this amusing (walloftext reformatted, emph mine):
So, was Gregg the winner of the shorthand deathmatch?
No. The real winner emerged in 1914, when a group of teenage competitors entered the competition, sponsored by the Universal Stenotype Company, using their newfangled stenotype machine.
These upstart kids were able to match the speed of the most experienced and fastest court reporters in America. An expert Pitman writer won the 1914 competition, but only just.
Contest organizers were so alarmed by the development that they put an end to the competition for five years. When it returned in 1919, machine stenographers were not allowed to enter.
It didn’t matter. The point had been made, and soon stenotypists were replacing shorthand writers in courtrooms across America.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Also, it doesn't have the slanted equals sign underneath each word.
Proper names and capitalized words have the dash sign “//“ placed under them. I was also taught “////“ under a word meant an acronym so you weren’t “looking” for elided vowels in a group of consonants stitched together.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there is any registry office rule that names have to be printable characters.
http://www.avss.ucsb.edu/MANUALS/Handbook.pdf (marked-)pp103
Unacceptable entries
Unacceptable entries:
- pictographs – a picture, e.g., ☺
- ideograms – a picture or symbol that represents a thing or an idea, but
not a particular word or phrase for it, e.g., ⇑ - diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, ç
.. though technically nothing about ligatures..
How about apostrophes? I know the USPS prohibits them in place names.
"Appropriate punctuation" is only defined self-referentially as "Punctuation is a standardized mark or sign used in punctuating sentences or phrases." and by a list of allowed examples. It does not say "any others are forbidden", so by the "AS" in "ASCII",
{*}^:
is legal.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
diacritical marks – any of various marks added to a letter to indicate its
pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way, e.g., è, ñ, ē, çSo all foreign names are illegal?
It probably has to round-trip several MUMPS systems, so yes.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
It probably has to round-trip several
MUMPSCOBOL systems, so yes.FTFY. There's probably something horrible involving IBM and EBCDIC involved.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
No sledge hammers, no weighted scythe, no DU machete?
Mein sohn, ich bin ein disappointen!
In some thread. But this is in English, so easier on the genpop here I guess. 😁
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
It probably has to round-trip several
MUMPSCOBOL systems, so yes.FTFY. There's probably something horrible involving IBM and EBCDIC involved.
Oh, eboladick, it's amusing in BDSM ways how that thing turns up in systems even though the system maintainers swear that there is no way that there is any eboladick in their systems.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
something horrible involving IBM and EBCDIC
But you repeat yourself.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
something horrible involving IBM and EBCDIC
But you repeat yourself.
Not all that is horrible is IBM.
Not all that is horrible is EBCDIC.
Not all that is IBM is EBCDIC.They also like Consulting and XML a lot.
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Don't forget their mainframes.
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Zoom acquires keybase, successfully losing the tiny amount of trust keybase had and not affecting the opinions of people who don't know what keybase is at all.
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