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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • I hadn’t read there were so many angles on the word. I had heard it came from Joyce and never dug deeper. I’m surprised that you quoted a passage from Oxford but didn’t check the OED. Joyce being Irish, the OED would better document the English he’d have been using. Merriam-Webster and derivatives are American English dictionaries.

    From the OED:

    Honestly, I’m just surprised physicists don’t have a gif/jif thing going on with quork/quark pronunciation.





  • Great game, great ad too!

    Ah man, what I wouldn’t give for a Nightdive remaster of this one! (Implies porting to PC also, haha)

    I wished they’d made a sequel too, but I feel like it’d be so easy to mess up. I just think there was so much cool stuff in this game that never got wider use, and I’d love to see it in other genres. A strategy game with madness and hallucinations? Awesome! An FPS telling a multi-generational story with period appropriate weapons and enemies? Amazing! (OK so Daikatana, but I did say it would be easy to mess up!)









  • Codex@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFrench rule
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    People don’t know what words mean in English either yet continue trying to force their made up definitions on others.

    Language is objective, because a language is an immaterial object. The opposite, subjective, would impy that language itself has an experience of the world as an entity in itself; that it is a subject.

    People’s understanding of the languages they speak is subjective (the subject is the person), but their use of language is objective, because they create objects (words, sentences) in the air or on a screen. When another person, a subject, reads those objective words, they then have a new subjective understanding of them. But the words, and the language, remain objects.


  • Codex@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlOn a mission
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    With a 20 year head start she might be able to actually do it, maybe by becoming president or head of the cdc or something?

    The ability for a time traveler to prevent 9/11 with one day’s notice is… definitely going to be more difficult.



  • The “tendies” thing (“nuggies” too) is so cringe to me, even more than Redditors and “le bacon”. It’s so easy to heat up frozen, pre-breaded chicken, and all these greentexts present it as though “being able to cook” (read: can put frozen food in an air fryer) is the pinnacle of love languages.

    Can we make Lemmy lentils a thing or something? We’re already obcessed with beans I guess, feels like we need our own stupid food meme gimmicks to compete.