#yesiknow — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #yesiknow, aggregated by home.social.
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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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Someone on FB posted that the correct way to pronounce Colorado (the state) was with a long "ah" sound (rhymes with the second word in "potato, potato").
I said they were wrong.
Wife of a friend of mine laid in and told me *I* was wrong because "colorado" is a Spanish word, so it should be pronounced in proper Spanish.
By the time I thought of asking her for the "correct" pronunciation of Los Angeles, the Alamo, San Francisco, etc., she was mad, so I didn't.
Complication: She's Mexican American, from Texas. I did mention Texas as an example before I shut my mouth, and she said the "Tejas" pronunciation was because it's not a Spanish-derived word, but from indigenous people living in the region.
Sigh. Sometimes you just walk away.
#linguistics #culture #pronunciation #english #american #YesIKnow #ButStill
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Look, I can ask my Google device to locate my phone and it starts ringing. Is there any good reason why can't ask it to locate my TV remote or my Kindle the same way? #YesIKnow
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Another interesting thing, the #mastodon web app for mstdn.ca ignores hotkeys on Falkon browser using #KDE Plasma, the #Elk webapp shows the menu next to a frame but no content, and the pinafore proxy app shows feeds and obeys hotkeys. Wasn't the orignal intent of the web to write once and read anywhere? 😅
And before you ask, Falkon is the only browser that really works in KDE on a #Pi400
#yesIknow #wehadmanywebdreams #inaweofthosewhoprogramforbrowsers
