Encyclopedia Briannica

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Encyclopedia Briannica: Speak volumes. You'll find sentences without judgment here. Technical Writer/Editor and Historical Linguist. she/her
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Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaJun 14
@cwwilkie I watched a couple seasons - started with the original Japanese one. Canada, England, Ireland, Nigeria. It's an odd thing. Turns into a lot of people hurting themselves for comedy or catching people who let their guard down after a failed planned joke. What does it make you think about?
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaJun 9
@mandatory Hi! No I don't. The closest I can think of is a book called Dictionary of Proverbs by Delfin Carbonell Bassett that has idioms in English and Spanish. Idiom dictionaries between English and another language are pretty common, but are not really compiled together except for listicles. The eggcorn database shows how people mis-hear English idioms: https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ Snowclones aren't quite idioms but memey English phrases with room for variables: https://snowclones.org/. (Hope you're doing well, please don't use these for evil.)
The Eggcorn Database

Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
@hugovk Wow! Good catch. It's definitely a syntactic freeze like or "Cease fire!". People still say "Whoa, Nelly" but as an interjection to tell people to stop or slow down. It's definitely worth adding WHOW BALL to the list, reminds me to look for other milkmaid terns. I'll let future curators decide where they draw the line on entries like these. Thanks!
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
@hugovk !! I'll add it to the list! I've found 2 modern nonce examples describing this tool with animal variants: scare-shark and scare-elephant, and then the historical variants of fray-boggard, fray-bug, flay-crake, gally-beggar, scare-beggar, gally-crow, fear-crow. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching
Encyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
Hugo van KemenadeApr 7

@E_Briannica
New #CutthroatCompound: Scatterbird

"The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers."

It's a scarecrow!

https://portek.co.uk/product/scatterbird-mark-4-birdscaring-gas-gun/

Scatterbird MK4 Birdscaring Gas Gun - Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products

Designed and developed to incorporate ALL the features requested by farmers over the past 35 years. The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers. Like it’s predecessor, the Scatterbird MK4 is a sturdy, purpose built bird scaring gas gun designed specifically to meet the needs of the farmer. The Scatterbird range has for many years set the industry standard for durability.

Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products
Encyclopedia BriannicaNov 17, 2024

Hello hello, I'm still here but I'm also now on Blue Sky as E-Briannica.

Hope you got to pet an animal today.

Ok that's all bye for now.

Encyclopedia BriannicaNov 3, 2024
Today I learnedNov 3, 2024

TIL: IKEA has its own "dictionary" where the quirky product names are actually derived from Swedish words, places, and categories.

https://lar5.com/ikea/index.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1givulu/til_ikea_has_its_own_dictionary_where_the_quirky/

The IKEA Dictionary

Encyclopedia BriannicaOct 30, 2024
Today I learned that the Beanie Babies founder was Ty Warner, so that’s why the tags said ❤️ty, and that it’s not short for anything - he was named after Ty Cobb (but Ty Cobb’s full name was Tyrus Raymond Cobb).
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaOct 27, 2024
@actuallyautistic @redsad Good luck! Don’t stop everything you’d normally do. Build in quiet time separations - parallel play in the same room is good but I need genuine nobody-is-perceiving-me time every day or i burn out from Hosting Mode Mask.
Encyclopedia BriannicaOct 26, 2024
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024

Short reminder: Tonight, Europe switches from DST back to regular time. The US will not switch until *next* weekend.

So check your calendars whether regular appointments have suddenly moved. Everything scheduled in European time will be 1 hour later for US folks, everything scheduled in US time will be one hour earlier for Europe folks.

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Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024

Short reminder: Tonight, Europe switches from DST back to regular time. The US will not switch until *next* weekend.

So check your calendars whether regular appointments have suddenly moved. Everything scheduled in European time will be 1 hour later for US folks, everything scheduled in US time will be one hour earlier for Europe folks.

Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @thisismissem I am horrified that EU also suffers from DST. That crap needs to go away!
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024
@catsalad @thisismissem @sycophantic Fun fact: The EU decided years ago that they would abolish DST, but the decree included all of Europe agreeing on a common time zone, and that apparently is so difficult we're still doing this nonsense.
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @catsalad @sycophantic what? How does that make sense? There's roughly 3 or 4 each 45-60 minutes apart
Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Oct 26, 2024
@thisismissem @uliwitness @sycophantic Nothing beats China's 1 timezone 
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024
@thisismissem @catsalad @sycophantic Might just apply to the big, irregularly-shaped central European time zone (and then affect the ones nearby by keeping their offset), I don't remember the details.
Show threadJoachimOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @thisismissem @catsalad @sycophantic
I think the idea was that the EU would keep the existing timelines but they be frozen to eternal „summer“ or „winter“ time but the EU countries couldn’t agree on which one to pick.
Show threadĽuboš Moščovič  Oct 26, 2024

@catsalad @uliwitness @thisismissem

It's even worse. There were endless discussions about this topic... since 2017-2018... there was even a poll where people clearly said "no" to regular changes... There was even "the day", but then Covid happened and plan was postponed to, well, never...

I hate this shit, it's killing me twice a year.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/28/when-will-the-eu-end-seasonal-clock-changes-only-time-will-tell

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/seasonal-time-changes/

When will the EU end seasonal clock changes? Only time will tell.

Time in Europe is political and ending the twice-yearly practice will require a lot of political decisions. #EuropeDecoded

euronews
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness this is perfect, one week I can miss all meetings and blame this
Show threadotheorange_tagOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness { ahaha! @quantensalat } #BaroqueSun
Show threaddeBaerOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness The whole daylight saving theater is such a messy mess. If you ever wondered why there are, to this day, two different time zones for Germany called "Berlin" and "Büsingen", it's because the latter didn't have DST in 1980 whereas the former did.
Show threadT🎃NOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness
Whoa! Thanks for the heads up! Got an early morning bus out of Tirana tomorrow!
Show threadAnimatronic PumpkinOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness I would like to hope Outlook has this handled, but it’s Outlook, so I’d really better double check that Wednesday morning meeting
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024

@jaycatt7 It's not a technical problem, it's a human problem. If you have the same appointment every week, and a colleague in the US created it, then an EU user might not expect it to suddenly move an hour (or might think it a bug).

Also, it depends on how your appointments are created (did someone attach a time zone?), or whether you even bother having a calendar. (I didn't have one for the first decade of my career, probably longer)

Show threadfiendishauburnOct 26, 2024
Ah, somebody's post from last night make a lot more sense
Show threadlimar_echoOct 27, 2024
@uliwitness This timeshifting concept should be dropped in my opinion... unnecessary complication.
Show threadJoshua JungOct 28, 2024
@uliwitness It’s nice that Apple scheduled some OS updates for this week, so we get them one hour earlier than usual.