I love learning about new words! And Fiona McPherson of the Oxford English Dictionary had all kinds of delightful information about new words and words from World English in our recent conversation. Here she explains what "Rolex" has to do with eggs.
Check out the whole interview!
Watch: https://youtu.be/FXNpvgF3mNE
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At the risk of asking people on the internet to explain things to me, can anyone tell me why someone would want to create a fake expert who gives quotes on many unrelated topics as described in this article?
It seem to be related to search engine optimization, but I can't figure out why you'd want links related to a bunch of different topics.
Are they redirecting the links somewhere else after the fact? Would that even work? Or is it something else?
I will also tweak my prompt.
I was worried about telling it to "delete obvious filler words like 'uh' and 'um.'" It seemed like it decided that more and more text was "obvious filler words." But on the other hand, it did it fine for a few pages.
6/x
nostr:npub1p02wmjcd7z3g8dkdzsajvqfs3rg6aqv7xngflvlxd2ppdkg0unwsdjr5uf I can't say I've never heard that construction, but it does sound uncommon to me. I'll try to remember to look in the OED when I'm back at my computer.
One of the reasons I ran the poll yesterday about what you use as a backup in case your cell phone goes out is that I was curious how it would differ between people on Mastodon and people on LinkedIn.
As I expected, people on Mastodon are more likely to have some kind of backup. Only 43% here said they have nothing, compared to 61% at LinkedIn.
nostr:npub1jajssyka7pxqvay57lugyf7pfdrs2ay6xz7lwsa0qw264k7ss5xqza54mc Great post!
Perhaps ironically, the thing that helped me realize work emergencies could often wait was getting myself a second full-time job as a professor for a few years. My QDT emergencies sometimes had to wait while I was teaching for hours at a time, and I learned that, wow, the world didn't end, our business didn't fail, and usually people weren't even annoyed with me.
If you want a podcast to listen to while you cook or work out this weekend, I bet you'll like my interview with Steve Kleinedler, who managed the usage panel at the American Heritage Dictionary!
We talked about why usage questions are still relevant, who gets to decide what matters, and why some words become accepted ("contact" as a verb) and some likely never will ("irregardless").
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TRANSCRIPT: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/steve-kleinedler/transcript
I just accidentally clicked on an ad. Pray for me.
nostr:npub1flvzvh68yy8e7wlecanchu4x9h4sqkx3ghavwhepnyktpcdkglmq7nctq0 How fun! (And I didn’t take this badly in any way.)
nostr:npub132u9eaume6caql2a4dcjeyj8ujl6lc6uschd5n3fxrvuh2nfz8tqvq7kcm Agreed! AI transcription is vastly better than it was a year ago, but it also still needs a human editor. I probably spend half as much time editing transcripts as I used to.
#podcasting
nostr:npub1p4yf3utz0gdc43v2vzpfx7k5vqc7mr3mrnr3qm2vm87pdp8myu9qkpl8vj Yes, they're talking about one episode of a podcast.
"At the time, Gimlet shows typically cost $75,000 to $250,000 an episode" 👀
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/spotify-podcast-gimlet-harry-meghan-kardashian-59866a5d
#podcasting
Maybe I'll go wild and incorporate some browser tabs!
Every once in a while my processes get out of control and my email inbox ends up overflowing with message of me telling myself to do different things.
This is one of those times.
I need to breathe for a minute and move it all to a paper to-do list.
nostr:npub13sd34tgqtvnc72k9gm8hr8sk57nmpzp0swl22u22wmk50ycpv3zst8shmt Cool! I've never heard "bang out sick."
nostr:npub1g57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52sgky839 Barbara McClintock discovered transposase, an enzyme essential for genetic engineering, and nobody believed her for many years.
She eventually won the Nobel Prize.
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/barbara-mcclintock
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 For me, the first implies that Gill Sans is also used elsewhere, the second sounds more like it’s exclusive to British Rail.
nostr:npub1zdsjeq4cr4mjkarrul9550tfg6hqwles8d9xj6h6q7d93r5ug8fqjuhx43 The next half of the sentence is about how it is used elsewhere.
nostr:npub1fueetpqqgyncvacfjuddqmxcunx7vddspe2ry4m9kp7ylsg533xsvhrdy4 Absolutely. New clients are always riskier.