A look at "Secret Genius" on Channel 4, the show that appeared to be about puzzles and the way the brain works, but was actually about how society consistently cannot cope with people who think in an unusual way.
Fediverse, you'll love it! And it's got Susie Dent! (And it's got Alan Carr, but he's kept on a reasonable leash.)
https://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver's_Week_2026-03-08
#GameShows #WeaversWeek #SecretGenius #AlanCarr #SusieDent #Mensa
Secret Genius winner Nathan Wright quits job after show as he plots next move
We're letting the minds of our youth be shaped by the products produced by men who want to fuck them for the kudos among their equally depraved cohorts.
Imagine if parents had the time to be with their kids, and raise them, instead of having to all go to work for a few coins from the Epstein Class.
#SusieDent #Childcare #Education #Vocabulary #TechBros #technology #Learning #Parenting
NICOLA METHVEN: 'Give me Secret Genius over The Apprentice or Love Island any day of the week'
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/nicola-methven-give-secret-genius-36643737
Alan Carr: ‘Susie Dent intimidated me – but she has a naughty sense of humour’
Your original 'sneaked' is correct, although American developed 'snuck' in the 19th century and that became mainstream acceptable before either of us was born. (-:
One of the benefits of a Classical education: I can on sight state that the Greek roots check out. 'ἀπο' means '(away) from', and the omicron can drop out before a smooth breathing vowel when compounded.
I pulled a 1931 dictionary off the shelf, just in case. It's in there.
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捧杀 pěngshā: to kill with praise, and developments/expansions on this.
https:// chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/54129/how-to-translate-%E6%8D%A7%E6%9D%80
Listening to Guilty By Definition, a book by Susie Dent.
Enjoying it. Not high literature. Wondering about dynamics in Dent's family of origin.
One rare word that gets defined is Sardonion: 17th c. noun A person who flatters with lethal intent.
I am expecting great things from @bytebro here, who no doubt spotted "southbridge" (one of the chips in a PC mainboard chipset) in yesterday's list.
"filesystem" is already ticked off, too.
And "mainboard" doesn't quite cut the mustard because even though #MerriamWebster does not have it, the #OxfordEnglishDictionary does.
Many computing terms are surprisingly a lot older than the 1970s and early 1980s.
But neither on-line dictionary has (for example) "elsethread", which no doubt @bytebro regards, as the rest of us used to 4 decades of threaded discussions do, as a normal word of long standing.
A relative is proud of xyr purchase of an early 1970s Concise #OxfordEnglishDictionary. I keep thinking of the huge number of everyday words and phrases, for me, that it cannot have. Looking up the movie #BossLevel (that the TiVo just thought that I should see), for example, the meaning of a "boss" as a video game enemy cannot pre-date the original 1971 Bruce Lee movie that the concept came from. "smartphone", "binfluencer", "mickeys", "rickrolling", "Wi-Fi", "cellphone", "floppy disc", "GUI", "TUI", "upvote", "newsgroup", "e-mail", "Thatcherite", "Lib Dem", "Blairite", "house music", "hard-code", "transgender", "JIT", "photoshop", "anime", "side-scroller", "teletext", "internet", "Ethernet", "DoS", "malware", "spammer", "SCSI", "southbridge", "CD", "chip and PIN", "shareware", "weblog", "cyberspace", "kill file", "MCP", "Bushism", "terminal emulator", "PDF", "K-pop", "PDA", "SUV", "boom box", "phishing", "infotainment", "GPS", "website", "coprocessor", … #EnglishLanguage
A poor substitute for a @lindasgoluppiart task.
Following on from yesterday's task and accompanying dictionary surprise:
For 10 minutes, attempt to identify any other 45-year-old (or roughly similarly aged) words that you yourself have been using for decades, that the current on-line #OxfordEnglishDictionary and #MerriamWebster do not have; beyond "filesystem".
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/115570125326606491
https://oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=filesystem
Today's dictionary surprise: Neither the on-line #OxfordEnglishDictionary nor on-line #MerriamWebster have "filesystem", although the on-line Cambridge Dictionaries has. This despite it being a single word since at least 1981. (It's in Richard Gauthier's book on Unix, pre-dating its use in Bourne's book by 2 years.) And despite it being a 2 word phrase in the 1970s (with this specific computer meaning) before that. https://archive.org/details/Using_The_UNIX_System_Richard_Gauthier/page/263/mode/2up?q=filesystem #Unix #EnglishLanguage #lexicography
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