the New York Times Tech Guild is on strike and asking you not to play NYT games or access the NYT cooking section in the meantime
however they have made a Frogger clone about getting strikers across 8th Ave to the picket line that you can play instead
Wellp, now got rid of #telegram as well. It also claims to be more secure than it actually is at this point. And just another pointless/half inaccessible messenger with no good clients left.
AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74 theverge.com/2024/11/7/2429070…
AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74
Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s iconic “You’ve Got Mail” notification, has died at age 74 after an illness.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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One of my favorite facts about English linguistics is that there are two mechanisms of bringing foreign words into English, and the resulting words are called "loanwords" and "calques."
In a calque, the components of a foreign word or phrase are translated to make a compound word; a loanword is just used as is, as an English word.
The thing that makes this great is that "calque" is a loanword, and "loanword" is a calque.
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