Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
(Samuel Beckett)
I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:
There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.
Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.
These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?
It reminds me of Vermeer’s Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?
My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.
I would be really handy for finding out what’s going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I’d imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?
I’m not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:
My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk
I haven’t posted any comments since, so I don’t know if it’s a one-off thing.
Beehaw’s defederation of lemmy.world doesn’t seem to be involved in this one.
Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.
This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don’t believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.
Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.
But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.
That looks a promising start. I’ll have a look into it when I have some time. I hope some others do too!
I don’t know Rust either, but it does appear to be relatively easy to understand; could be worse anyhow.
It would be nice to have a fully documented API to work from: probably not a priority for the lemmy devs right now, I’d imagine.
Thanks, yes that’s a more useful source than my one.
I think this would be the best way to go.
Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.
It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.
Ian’s Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I’ve been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.
Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.