Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask
So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.
Language Jones is a great channel!
Yeah, Google, Meta, Amazon, and probably others really need to get broken up and get proper antitrust treatment. I say this even as someone who holds stock (like a total of 5 shares, so not much) in a couple of those. I used to dream of working at Google as well, but that dream died quite some time ago based on their actions and culture.
Would you like fries with that for only a dollar more?
Neither? I am more wary after the launch of 6 and the issues, but I also say ‘neither’ because I’m simply not in the market for a new device.
killing ab blockers
I might finally get a six-pack!
As someone who started in tech support in 2000 and is a software developer now: absolutely not.
All I see in the thumbnail is delicious, forbidden makizushi
I list n to podcasts about science, space, farming, linguistics, and literature. They’re actually rather interesting. I don’t think I could do just random bullshit
Nice! Thank you!
I will learn to build a mouse and write my own damn drivers first.
I think it’s meant to be fucking scalding which would be AdjAdj at least, but yeah, I still think it’s dumb.
I’m in my early 40s and still do a bit. Mostly, between a fulltime job, recently buying a house, and farming, I’ve not had time to play much. I did start BG3 but moved in the midst of it and haven’t touched it in months (I’m at the first hub in whatever act has the darkness… Act II, maybe?) I’d love to actually go back to playing some of the games I loved from the late '80s and early '90s since some of those are much easier to pick up and put down. I did play a little bit of TF2 again recently after at least 5 years (probably more) of not really playing it. This winter, I might pick BG3 back up in between house projects.
I’d have to find it first but it’s (a) like incinerated and, if not, (b) has been decomposing for more than 40 years and I doubt works well as a pressure vessel.
I always said “in GIN icks” (gin like the alcohol) based on someone else’s pronunciation years ago. I never realized it was meant to have anything to do with “engine” as a result.
Every time I think I’ve managed to erase NetWare from my brain, someone has to drag it back up angry fist-shaking
“Stay a while. Stay forever”
For your gandfather, could it be dementia? Personality change, including dropping of inhibitions, can be signs of that.
I’m seeing a screenshot of this so I’m pretty sure she’s alive, but she might be an AI or a zombie.
Japan is slowly getting better, but it’s a long road ahead. There are more laws and they’re actually enforcing some of them with regard to harassment and hours worked (a lot of people would clock out and keep working, but they’re trying to make the penalties bit enough to stop it from what I hear. My company is certainly strict about it).
It’d be nice to have european-level vacations before I retire, but that I don’t see happening