New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.
I seem to use movie when describing the blockbuster/B-movie end of the scale, and film when talking about a quality bit of cinema. But I also am more likely to call a US flick a movie and a Brit one a film.
I like the sound of the word autumn, and particularly autumnal. I can see those reds and browns and feel the crisp air. Fall does give more opportunity for puns and easier rhymes, I guess.
Y’all is great, but I can’t use it without sounding like I’m taking the piss.
It’s the /ʒ/ sound like the s in measure, vision, or the J in the French Jack. So the word is /koːʒɛ́t/ It’s from the French word courge.
I’ve gone the opposite way - I’ve been replacing my American pronunciations with the British ones, like leverage starts with lee, like in lever, and that (software) patent starts with pat not pait.
I think it’s in response to my younger friends and colleagues sounding, to my ears, increasing American - they say gotten, zee, and on accident (things that are often more consistent, but just not cricket British). I’m old enough to remember the sound of dual up, so I probably wasn’t as exposed to US media growing up.
The egg start to decompose and produces gas. Some of that gas escapes through the shell, so the egg’s mass decreases, which causes the density of the egg vs water to drop.
Assuming you have a sense of smell. Anosmia affects about 3% of people - probably more since Covid.
I’m still very happy with the experience, especially the UX and customisation options, and they’re developing new features fast. Not always successfully at first, e.g. the recent integration of WolframAlpha isn’t entirely a step forward (mostly because they’re not displaying the extra context that WA shows that lets you know when it’s answering the wrong question).
I think overall most people are very happy, as shown by the frequent recommendations on here (so much so that someone on Lemmy was telling everyone it must be astroturfing).
Such a huge amount of work for a “joke”, even the write-up contains rotatable 3D diagrams. Lots of interesting stuff in there - I wasn’t planning on reading it all but there was nothing I wanted to skip.
This is surprisingly hard!
I’d assumed it was already legal - the Thais are very progressive with some stuff in this area.
The author has no idea how to get his audience on-side! He starts with bragging about his 6400% profit margin on domain he resold, in a market where there’s no customer value for middlemen.
At least antique dealers will identify pieces as rare, clean/restore them and put them for sale in a more visible place. Whereas domain reselling is about as ethical as ticket touting.
Good meme, wrong community for it though.
It starts out as ridiculous as you’d expect from the Onion, but it’s a serious legal filing as a amicus curiae (“friend of the court” - a person or group who’s not a party to the case but is interested and wants to give advice).
It is thought the curious feline had been in a vat of hexavalent chromium, a highly acidic and carcinogenic chemical which is orange and brown in colour.
I’d clicked into this story after misreading the place as Fukushima. Nothing to do with anything nuclear, but it sounds like that that would have been better for the cat than this stuff.
And if you’re posh, you have effectively unlimited choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewe4mlX2tc
The reason that island is spelt with an s is because English scholars mistakenly assumed that it was from the French isle (from Latin insula) and spelt it isle-land, which became island. It’s actually from Old English iegland.
I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.
That reminds me of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey (basically in office hours this tool will randomly kill stuff).
Schedule, yes! We’re very much in the minority on that one, but I’ll keep on using it the right way, even if it doesn’t seem to make sense when looking at other words like school.