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Post by Pacifica on Jul 10, 2024 18:53:34 GMT
I've heard 'beading', but not in that sense. Same here. |
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 10, 2024 18:55:30 GMT
Well, in fact I'm not entirely sure I've come across it as a noun in any context. Could be, but hard to tell. I'm only sure I've seen it as a participle many times.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 10, 2024 19:00:07 GMT
Who came up with the brilliant idea of putting the Start button in the middle? OK, I've found the setting to get it back on the left, but why? Is there someone sitting in an office who can't think of anything that might be useful, so hopes that moving things about will be their claim to fame? How much do they get paid to irritate people?
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 10, 2024 19:02:04 GMT
Sorry, which Start button are you talking about?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 10, 2024 19:02:12 GMT
There is beading on clothes. There is beading on flooring, but that's a rather different thing.
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 10, 2024 19:03:33 GMT
There is beading on clothes. Oh yes, I believe I've come across that one. There is beading on flooring, but that's a rather different thing. That one doesn't sound familiar. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 10, 2024 19:03:52 GMT
Sorry, which Start button are you talking about? The one on a computer, or rather the representation of a button on a screen that you have to go to to shut down the computer (but not to start it). |
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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 10, 2024 19:57:39 GMT
For some reason 'grènetis` reminds me of 'crenulation'.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 11, 2024 4:12:28 GMT
Who came up with the brilliant idea of putting the Start button in the middle? OK, I've found the setting to get it back on the left, but why? Is there someone sitting in an office who can't think of anything that might be useful, so hopes that moving things about will be their claim to fame? How much do they get paid to irritate people? Yeah I noticed that. They put a weather widget on the left instead on mine. I haven't been using the Start button for a long time (my keyboard has a Windows button) so I let it pass, but it's visually weird. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 19, 2024 14:25:08 GMT
I had meant to put that into the Every Time thread. Having it here makes it look like I hadn't worked out that it had moved for my first few weeks of Windows 11. Even I am not quite that non-visual.
This isn't something I learnt just now, but I don't think we have the critical mass to support both this thread and one for things that dawned on you or which you were told belatedly but not recently. In the Jamaican insult 'bloodclaat', I thought that the second element was 'clot', because it sounds rather like it, and makes sense in connexion to the word 'blood'. But it actually means 'cloth', and refers to sanitary protection for menstruation. I should have worked this out from the example of the analogous insult 'bombaclaat', or 'bum cloth', referring to something used to wipe the shit from your arse. All rather creative.
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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 19, 2024 15:57:22 GMT
I can't quote chapter and verse, but I have read that in the Tallaght (Stowe) Missal, in its version of the prayer of humble access, the communicant describes himself as being as filthy as the rag used by a menstruating woman (on account of sin).
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 20, 2024 1:35:54 GMT
The word "changeling" was borrowed into French as "changelin".
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Post by kizolk on Jul 20, 2024 16:30:06 GMT
I should have worked this out from the example of the analogous insult 'bombaclaat', or 'bum cloth', referring to something used to wipe the shit from your arse I would never had known that's what it meant. I'm familiar with "bombaclaat" because it's used in a song I like (which I can't remember right now), but it seemed like a positive thing. It was uttered in isolation, like something a DJ might shout to the audience e.g. "make some noise!" The word "changeling" was borrowed into French as "changelin". At little weird, but I like how it sounds. |
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Post by Pacifica on Aug 20, 2024 10:13:21 GMT
"The Swahili Coast" literally means, like, "the Coastal Coast".
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Aug 26, 2024 16:45:13 GMT
The Estonian word for mustard is sinep. I'm amazed I've never cone across this piece of trivia before, because all the anglophone collectors of inconsiderate trifles are sniggering about it.
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