Timo @timo@soundcafe.nl

Word 23 (cont'd from @krinkle):

"""
Ronseal (adj.)

of something to do precisely as one would expect from its outward description.

e.g. "a Ronseal deal", "a Ronseal solution".
"""

The phrase entered British vernacular after the 1994 TV advertising slogan "It does exactly what it says on the tin", by wood paint manufacturer Ronseal.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ronseal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_the_tin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20945352

#english #word #linguistics

British accents versus American accents, from The Oatmeal (comic).

https://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences4/accents

#theoatmeal

"How Omicron Symptoms Differ From Delta, Past COVID-19 Variants" via #DaringFireball.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/01/18/omicron-symptoms

From Irmak Bayrakdar, via #kottke:

"""
In a recent experiment by a Turkish farmer, outfitting cows with VR goggles that simulate being in a pasture, upped milk production by 2 gallons per cow per day.
"""

The article is worth a read, catchy headline on quality reporting and raises good questions.

Kocak ordered the rig from Moscow, where a similar "simulation" was run eight months earlier.

https://interestingengineering.com/a-turkish-farmer-tests-out-vr-goggles-on-cows-to-get-more-milk

Someone is arguing at a ticket counter.
We hear the words:
"Do you know who I am?"

The agent picks up the microphone,
addressing the room:
"Help needed at the frontdesk.
We someone with amnesia,
he doesn't know who he is."

#podcasts #linguistics #word

https://overcast.fm/+L0YV_fCvU
https://play.acast.com/s/akimbo/statusroles-acast72007ca7

#Wordle 207 4/6

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Lucky start today :)

Wow, MS-DOS was around over a thousand years ago!?

Evidence:

a medieval canvas from 1066 depicting the Norman Conquest, featuring a path on the artist's C:\ drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

Telephone rings, a brief history of the hardware design and their use in film, by Alec from #TechnologyConnections.

"The only audio-file guaranteed to never start an argument."

I love these puns ☺️

https://youtu.be/AxXsIQDafog

2021 Donations by @wouter

https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/12/donations/

Semiannual changelog of Merriam-Webster, with words added since April 2020, thus recognizing them as being in wide use and likely to stay:

* long hauler.
* bubble (definition 7 A to 7 D).
* wet market (first known use with current meaning: 1978).
* crowdfunding (first 2007).
* to "at" someone (first 2008).
* A.S.M.R. (first 2011).
* gig worker (first 2014).
* cancel culture (first 2016).

#english #word #linguistics

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary-january-2021 https://archive.fo/AtZZR

Apparently it's a well-known easter egg, and is featured twice more in the film in scenes where Ray (Samuel L. Jackson) is having to deal with Dennis Nedry's "hacker crap".

Fans were unable to credit the photo (sometimes referred to as "Nedry's lock screen") to a model or photographer. Rather, it brought them to illustrator Al Moore, who later painted various such pinups for Esquire magazine during the 50s.

There's a scene in Jurassic Park, that climactic moment where Lex (Ariana Richards) realises the computer that can save them, is in fact "a Unix system". She sighs in relief, and rapid typing with classic "hacker" animations ensue.

Upon seeing it again in a meme, I noticed something odd. After a particularly important mouse click and camera turn, the computer prominently renders a scarcely dressed women in zebra outfit. The screen then blinks back to a park map.

"""
Ik heb radijsjes, hele mooie, witte en rooie.
Maar ja, ik heb geen bananen,
ik heb geen bananen vandaag!
"""

Ik keek gister de Johnny Harris docu over de bananenindustrie, en hoorde plots een bekend deuntje:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBCl8huNMA&t=1196s

volledig, 1923:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HygopC4S5W0&t=342s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas

Jazz versie, iets sneller en herkenbaarder, 1949:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QqkrIDeTeA&t=2s

Muppet parodie, 60s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQ0XUNxJyQ&t=14s
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas

Nederlandse cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fb80YeB56U&t=54s

#muziek