The New York Times mini crossword for today

Why is babushka a Super Saiyan?

I agree, and I love your username.

This entire thread is /c/badlinguistics

For me it’s everything but the HDR support.

We use a laptop outputting to a TV over HDMI as our main TV. That way my wife and I can watch whatever we want as usual, but also do crosswords, browse Lemmy together, etc.

The main alt I use for the family TV is on SJW. Federated with basically all of the other mainstream instances but no porn.

39 here, exact same backstory.

*puerile

This is literally the opposite of what happened. “To damp” was used to mean “to moisten” in the 1670s, a hundred and fifty years before “dampen” started to be used for it also in the early 1800s.

As with many if not most of the pedants in this thread, you’re dying on a hill that’s actually just straight-up wrong.

Natural human languages always have ambiguity. There are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages) specifically designed to avoid ambiguity though if you wanted to use one of those.

If such a version of English were ever made, it would immediately gain ambiguity as soon as people began speaking it fluently (and same for the conlang if a community of speakers began using it fluently as well).

There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.

Still not buying a Samsung.

They hated him because he told them the truth.

Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.

Same. As much as I love Domino’s, if we’re going out, we’re definitely going to a proper pizzeria.

Domino’s pan, double cheese, light sauce, extra pepperoni. I’ve tried deep dish in Chicago, New York style in New York, traditional pizzerias in Italy, and countless overpriced “craft” places from all over North America, and nothing I’ve tried even comes close.

Thanks!

It wasn’t a criticism - I was just curious if anyone had any more info.

Do we know when Mint 22 is coming yet other than just “summer '24”?