Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History' 4 weeks ago:
I guess you’d have to hack 'em back
- Comment on China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History' 4 weeks ago:
Consider it backup.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 3 months ago:
You forget, said shipping of fleshbags is done on UNPAID time. CEOs love unpaid time.
- Comment on Do Alarms Turn Off Automatically After a Long Period of Time? (Android)? 1 year ago:
Good on you for not already knowing the answer, because you always get up!
I don’t sleep through alarms but I have showered through a few, they turned off after 10 minutes or so.
- Comment on Dog 1 year ago:
Fwiw, Weiner dogs can be pretty ferocious
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 1 year ago:
I mix them up all the time myself
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 1 year ago:
When you say subtitles do you mean closed captions? Because I agree those are a boost for me to follow what I’m also seeing and hearing the person say. But with subtitles they’re speaking a different language so lip-reading isn’t helpful and hearing just adds tone of voice.
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 1 year ago:
There’s others but this looks like a good one
- Comment on Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond? 1 year ago:
Duck butts look warm, that’s probably it.
- Comment on Is there a way to enable in-chat incoming message sounds for Samsung phones? 1 year ago:
For what it’s worth 4 days later, this bugs me too on my Google Pixel phone! My daughter texts me something, we go back and forth, something interrupts and I don’t realize she’s asked a question and I’ve left her hanging.
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 1 year ago:
As an American (Los Angeles) I think the main difference between how I pronounce water and the way Judi Dench does it is the t. We treat the t like our brake pedal at a stop sign with no other cars around, barely a tap, basically a d sound. The a we pronounce ah. Judi’s ah sounds similar but maybe a little oh-ish to us.Then of course there’s the -er, which we do pronounce, while Judi says -uh, in the classiest way evah of course!
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 1 year ago:
Are you 100% sure this is even the correct box office for those tickets? Because it sounds a bit sketchy to me. Especially when they wouldn’t answer your phone call.
If you are going to have to go as low-tech as playing phone tag, maybe go to the actual box office or team office and get face-to-face with a person.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 1 year ago:
I found this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KozLFLwhLac
And this other answer that goes into more detail on the Middle Ages part:
“Whereas the Latin alphabet has been used for English from the earliest times, the numerals are relatively late. In early Middle English there were words for one, two, three (etc) but there was no word for “zero”, as the symbol hadn’t yet arrived in England (from India, via Arabia and Italy), and even when the symbols did arrive, they were, at first, a rather specialist tool for calculation that neither the illiterate peasants, nor the literate clergy, would have had much use for. They were a device that allowed financiers to make calculations without the use of an abacus.
As literacy and numeracy became more widespread in the Early modern period there is an issue: What do we call “0”? There’s no problem with “1” because we can just name the numeral after the number “one”. But there is no number for “0”!
Some people use the technical term “zero” from Italian, ultimately from Sanskrit. But this is a foreign and strange word. Some people use the English word “naught”, meaning “nothing”. But there is another option. The symbol looks exactly like the letter O. So not having a better name, many people just used the name of the symbol that it looks like. This use is attested from 1600, but probably goes back long before that.”
I have not checked the veracity of either source or answer, but it’s definitely true that English speakers have been saying O for 0 for a very long time, in any context that isn’t too confusing.