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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I honestly think this is the most common scenario. Both people who self-describe as bi and pan will have varying preferences, and I think it's typically more about audience and communication than any universally definable difference.

This is similar to how a binary bi or pan person who tends to date people of the same sex or gender might self-describe as gay; they're not creating a binding contract when they do so, rather they're providing an easily-digestible description of their sexual or romantic character to others.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Verb form and tense mistakes really wind me up for some reason!

  • Hast not ye all
  • The pastor and thee churn butter
  • Thy chaste belly

(And if you're going to use hast not ye all, be consistent eyes I danced not with the devil and I jig and frig not).

Thank you for coming to my extremely amateur but extremely picky TED talk.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I thought they were the ATH M50X, but on comparison, they're just similar. Perhaps a cheap knock-off.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Every Sennheiser product I've had has been like this. Excellent sound relative to the price point, but not a lot of longevity.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There's an optional "tabbed interface" in View > User Interface that's a lot like the Office ribbon. Like the Office ribbon, it has context-sensitive additional tabs, and you can enable a compact version that shows less but takes up less vertical space.

I've not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is also how the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in the UK and Calais in France works, sans any amenities other than a toilet. Drive on, get taken under the strait, and drive off at the other side.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

A society predominantly attended by hobbits.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok, now we're cooking with gas! They cite The Sharks of North America (Castro, 2011) which says:

The name "nurse" comes from "nusse," meaning fish, which appears in print as early as 1440 in the Promptorium Parvulorum, an early English/Latin dictionary. [...] "Nuses were there so plentie, that they would scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes" (Hakluyt 1589).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "nusse" is derived from the earlier "huss," the ancient name for the catsharks

The Promptorium Parvulorum has an entry for husk:

Husk of fyshe: Squamus, -i; Masc.,

with a note against that entry:

'Huske, fyshe,' Harl, some kind of fish.

  • 'Hush, the Lump, a fish,' JAMIESON.
  • 'Husse, a fysshe : rousette,' PALSGRAVE.
  • 'Huss, the dogfish,' HALLIWELL.

So we have to trust the OED about the transformation from huss to nuss. I guess it could be the classic misdivision/rebracketing ("an huss" becoming "a nuss") that gives us "nickname" and "newt".

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did you find any convincing linguistic or etymological source for nusse? I can find a lot of near-verbatim articles repeating it, including the NatGeo article you've linked, but nothing independent and scholarly about the word.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Fair! This still seems like it's angling to attract people who want to buy Canadian, and so it still feels a little misleading to me.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

You're looking at a post from lemmy.ca. I'm not sure why you assumed the picture was taken in the US.

Edit: despite the community, it is in the US - see comments below.

 

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Who knew botflies could be cute?

Description: an adult deer botfly (Cephenemyia stimulator) on a rock. Its body is covered with fur-like cetae, yellow and black, resembling a bumblebee a little. Its eyes are large and black.

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