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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Hmmm, you’d struggle to find a subjunctive noun. As above, the only reason I know this stuff is because I did Latin. I’m not quite sure what we did in English lessons, but we weren’t really taught the mechanics of the language.
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Well, as I’ve got older, I’ve got odder… As well as using the subjunctive more, US speakers are also more inclined to use the formal gerund, if you don’t mind my saying. English teaching over there seems better in many ways - look at those massive spelling bees, for example. Something else...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    It’s more like 7-10 seconds from ‘go’ to ‘stop’. I was able to brew a batch of beer in the other side of the house, within the four-hour coverage, without missing any gameplay. Seemingly bizarre, but I’ll reserve judgement till my mate comes up from London to explain.
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    As an ex-rugby union player, I’d say it resembles neither, but if anything, it’d be like rugby league (start-stop, limited tackles, no rucking). If the players had to play in cycling shorts and crash helmets. I did try to watch the recent superbowl, but wasn’t sure what was going on. It seemed...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    American football - ?
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I call it a table saw as well. A sawbench, to me, is a more crude, often PTO-driven job used for cutting up firewood. I have thought we could make a mortice with a mortiser, as you’d get advice from an adviser, but the S doesn’t look right.
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    (From memory) We are anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation. Now, why I retain that, and not when the car’s MoT is due, is a mystery. Is there a US/UK difference in table saw/sawbench? I used to enjoy reminding a US friend of mine that there is more...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    We’ve bought a whole pork shoulder, cheap deal. It’ll be divided into two or three, then probably cooked as per Hugh FW’s aromatic pork shoulder ‘Donnie Brasco’ recipe. However, I’d like to try cutting some steaks from it and tenderising them sous vide, with the aim of making them like a beef...
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    Multico morticer chuck conversion saga

    Yes, next job is to make a long chuck key for it. The only problem I can see with an ER chuck is, wouldn’t you need three hands to hold the bit, hold the chuck and tighten the nut? Given the keyway fun, if I had to do it again, I might either turn down and sleeve the shaft, or perhaps chop off...
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    Multico morticer chuck conversion saga

    One of those jobs that should have been quick. My K3 hollow-chisel morticer used an awkward mounting system: each size of auger bit needed its own collet for the sleeve on the motor shaft. You’d have to line up the hole in the collet with the retaining screw, then steer the bit into the collet...
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    The Mighty Sturgeon

    Sturgeon: an anadromous* bottom-feeder with poor eyesight which, when threatened, stirs up mud to cover its escape. * I must confess, I misread that word as a Greek compound with similar sound but very different meaning…
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    Scam alert

    Oh, grow up Temple… [snigger].
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    Coronated

    I’ve had the ‘language evolves’ argument thrown at me many a time, and I agree, basically. But, as @SamQ aka Ah! Q! will tell you, it implies that many words that come into existence are pruned away by ‘selection pressures’ - pedants. So, think of us as a vital cog in the machine…
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    Coronated

    That’s what my old Dad used to call it! He got gentle mockery, asking why he didn’t call the car a ‘horseless’ :giggle:
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    Coronated

    I’ll take you deep into the weeds of pedantry… https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/143/1/374/5679563 In short, the original Greek is ‘νεῦρον’ which transliterates as ‘neuron’, because the penultimate letter is an omicron, a short ‘o’, not an omega, a long ‘o’. It originally meant ‘sinew’...
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    Coronated

    Well, I’ve certainly done my share of scoffing at US English, but thinking of our American friends on here, such as @BentonTool *, I’ll offer a couple of little counterpoints. They’re better at using the subjunctive: US papers will state, ‘they asked that he ensure the safety of…’. You hardly...
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    Scam alert

    New scammer: user byranian7. No posts, but a PM offering something I had in the Wanted section. Same format as above.
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    AI for Technophobes

    I hope you gave it a byte to eat before the flight. Maybe a nybble of a Kernal?
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    AI for Technophobes

    A pretty good AI image; I can’t see any extra fingers or other oddities. AI seems to have got better even just in the last year. Probably learning at an exponential rate (like Skynet did!). But, the C64 box doesn’t look big enough for all the peripherals (datasette, power supply brick). Seems...
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    AI for Technophobes

    I have to put this in. This prescient story did highlight the need for ‘kill switches’ in AI. Did you know, in the film, the head-up display of the T-800 shows 6502 processor assembly language scrolling up? This processor was used in the Apple II and a similar one in my beloved Commodore 64...
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