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Mircea Neacsu wrote: "favorite file"
Which illustrates the ambiguity: Is your "favorite file" the one you would prefer over other files, or a file of your favorites (e.g. URLs, lovers or whatever)?
In this case, you could of course "favorites file" for the second alternative, but even if you can, maybe you don't do that. I have seen lots of such cases where I had to guess from context what the meaning is. The less ambiguity, the better. (Except when the very purpose of the statement is to play with the language!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Appears locale specific. Am not finding such a word in Windows in India (English).
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Interesting. Mine is Win 11 Pro, 23H2 English(US)
Mircea
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Mine is Win 11 Home Edition, 22H2. This is also English, but not US English; mostly UK-English customized to India.
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Must have been created by the same people who have made terms like "Your Spend" and "The Ask". Both of these words are verbs but Marketing people have corrupted and bastardized them into nouns. I rail against them in meetings. You have a question not an ask, asking is what you do with a question.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Along with the word tasked which was entirely made up.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Comes the revolution, Marketing/Advertising folk should be first up against the wall, "for the cold blooded murder of the English tongue".
I'm half-joking, but only half.
Professor Higgins captured it nicely : "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek....."
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MarkTJohnson wrote: You have a question not an ask
I've not heard it used in place of 'question' but rather a short version of asking a favor. "Hey, man, I've got a big ask of you. Would you mind < doing some favor >?"
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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As was said in Calvin and Hobbes, "Verbing nouns weirds the language."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Cannot argue with Oxford so, case closed. Maybe someone should send a memo to Merriam-Wesbster that is my go to reference.
Mircea
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David O'Neil wrote: Brevity often coincides with clarity
But when it doesn't...
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They have not heard of the word favoured (favored in US)?
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Isn't "verbing" itself a good example of exactly the same abomination?🙄
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Verbing nouns and nouning verbs makes my toes curl.
"Learnings" 😱
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Let me think about that and revert back to you
P.S. It's my pet hate misuse of a word, and now that I've done this thing I need to lie down in a darkened room and reconsider my life choices
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I literally died when I read that! 
My kids use phrases like this, makes me cringe. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's ok, I speak only English, pretty much and favorited sounds like an abomination to me too.
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From CP newsletter
https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^]
A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans.
Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important.
But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
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They can't work in an open environment.
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jschell wrote: a road with raging wildfire on both sides
like this one?[^] That's a fire truck at the bottom, with a firefighter standing on the road. My colleagues.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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jschell wrote: how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
Unlike human drivers, an autonomous car wouldn't go into a panic.
But then, it might get itself burnt to a crisp before a human does.
I'd be more impressed seeing autonomous cars doing well in a snowstorm, or after a heavy snowfall. I guess there's not much of that sort of testing going around in California.
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I was driving eastward across the Afsluitdijk today, in the slow lane, going just slightly under the speed limit, enjoying the views of the waters and boats. I catch up to a slow truck and I slow down to stay behind him. In my mirror I see another truck slowly gaining on us. He does not pull over into the passing lane, just gets closer and closer. He just creeps to within a couple feet of my bumper, at least that is what it feels like when all I see is grill in my rear view mirror.
So I decide maybe it is time to get out of there. Not comfortable between two trucks with one of them tailgating me. So I put on my signal, change lanes and boot it past the truck in front of me. I notice that the truck behind me does the same and also passes the truck. I pull back into the slow lane and slow down again to just under the speed limit. The truck, instead of just passing me, pulls in behind me again and once again pulls right up to my bumper, but this time he lays on his horn. So I let up on the throttle to slow down even more, before he finally pulls over and passes me, blaring his horn the whole time.
A little later this evening, I am driving down the A37 towards Coevorden, I am going the speed limit, passing a bunch of slower trucks when my GPS tells me my exit is coming up soon. So I pull into the slow lane and nestle in behind a truck so I will not miss my exit. Again, the truck I just past decides he does not like that, so he pulls right up behind me, just like the last guy earlier. But this time my exit is coming soon, so I just stay where I am. Bozo pulls up beside me, then comes into my lane, trying to run me off the road.
I have been driving for over 40 years, all over Canada and the US, and I have never seen behaviour like this before, then on my first day driving in Europe I have two incidents like this.
Are all European truck drivers this crazy, or is it just the dutch ones? I am almost not looking forward to tomorrow driving in Germany.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Many moons ago, I visited Germany for business a number of times. I was told most trucks especially semi's used the autobahn at night. Not a law, but a practice that was pretty consistent. Most automobile traffic adjusted accordingly.
Left hand lane is passing only. If you cruise in the left lane the automobiles wanting to use it for passing let you know with flashing lights and maybe a horn to encourage you should move to the right. This is the practice here in Texas as well. Some just pass you on the right (not kosher but also tolerated). Road signs occasionally remind every one of the rules.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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PJ Arends wrote: and I slow down to stay behind him.
As a guess, you were too close. The field of view behind a truck is limited. So perhaps the other truckers were less than pleased about that.
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