Turquoise comes from the French for Turkish.
I love stuff like this. The prevalence of Arabic words in Spanish, for example, is a fascinating leftover from occupation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
Dan S, I thnk the hole in the spoon is for one serving uncooked...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, May 1, 2023
ok I get it, I don't have that kind of pasta spoon/fork with a hole in it. It sounds ingenious but it also sounds like it only works for spaghetti and similar shapes. If that's only kind of pasta you're serving, I guess that's fine.
I try not to have too many utensils in my kitchen. One of my main older learning experiences is ... my kitchen scale was inexpensive and has been useful in so many ways, in my case especially for baking sourdough bread, but also for weighing out dried pasta and other ingredients in so many recipes
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
Idk why I’ve only noticed this the last few years but I think there might be quite a few words where I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable? Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s just pronounced differently in the US compared to where I grew up (NZ).
Eg I very recently figured out that I might be saying massage and decor incorrectly: I say MASSage and DEcor.
This seems like a weird blind spot to not notice common words being pronounced very differently by everyone around you.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link
Also, pasta serving sizes are a joke to me. A pound size bag of pasta is NOT 8 servings. Maybe I’m just a pig but it’s more like 4 servings max (and quite often only 3).
― just1n3, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:55 (one year ago) link
xp i think that is just non-NA english way of saying it, most (many?) americans will know what you are saying and get why you sound a bit different
― buzza, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link
I was wondering if pasta serving sizes had changed a lot over the years and if the measuring hole on a traditional spoon was larger than i a diet conscious era. Or how long the spoon hole had been a feature. Just been listening to Maintenance Phase recently so am aware of that whole diet conscious era being relatively new as in several decades whereas pasta is a foodstuff with a much longer tradition.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
(xp) Exactly, though I've never heard "decor" pronounced any other way.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
day-CORE obv
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
just think about the way you pronounce “singapore” over a gin and tonic in the raffles
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
cardi-b is a rapper (from the crossword thread)
had heard the name before, obv, but figured on z-list celeb from one of those talent shows
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
lol, I learn many contemporary pop culture factoids at a shockingly old age thanks to the NYT crossword
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
Many words, massage being one of them, I stress the first syllable when used as a noun, and the second when used as a verb. Record, permit, progress.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
I was wondering if pasta serving sizes had changed a lot over the years and if the measuring hole on a traditional spoon was larger than i a diet conscious era. Or how long the spoon hole had been a feature.....― Stevo, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3:29 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Welp, I just learned what the hole in the spoon is for.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
i now know what it's not for, and have some personal reflection to embark on and some apologizing to do to people whose dinners I've attended
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
xpost to Alba:
Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second."Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 27, 2023
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Thursday, 4 May 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
oh that is cool
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 4 May 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
xxp lol
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
That reminds me of a little saying that the late great Martin Skidmore was fond of, for remembering when to use "s" and when to use "c" in certain words... He suggested one could "devise a device" for remembering it...
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 May 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
Sooo wait.
Commonwealth differences in spelling with the US has been done to death, but I gotta ask. Does that mean Martin would've said you'd have to have a license to licence?
― pplains, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
I seriously thought the c for s thing was just a difference in spelling between the two regions, not that one was used for the verb and one was used for the noun.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
Lol this mnemonic may have literally only worked for that pair of words
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
you need advice? i can advise.
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
The mnemonic I’ve heard for this is “you can c a noun but you can’t c a verb”Kind of nonsense because you can see a verb but still
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Practise/practice is another one
in theory it's the same for uk licenc/se but US usage has muddied the waters (and the fact that they're pronounced the same).
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
C-MurderS-Murder
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
Buddy Guy's Stone Crazy! is one of my favorite albums. Today I learned that a whole second album, Junior Wells' Pleading the Blues, was recorded at the same session, just adding Junior Wells on vocals and harmonica.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
I was just told that Cinco de Mayo is not celebrated in Mexico itself, but only in the US.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
Although maybe the guy meant Mexico Mexico, el DF, Mexico City itself.
Hmm, seems to be true.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
I think it commemorates a relatively minor victory in some battle for independence, and I've always assumed it was selected in the US for celebrating because of its calendar position - not much else going on in early May.
― nickn, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Cinco de Mayo = a "white people get drunker than usual and get in more fights and car accidents" holiday
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
- "So when is Mexico's Independence Day?"
- "El dieciséis de septiembre."
- "Hmmm. Did anything ever happen in 'marzo' or 'mayo'?"
― pplains, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
Commemorates the Battle of Puebla when they beat the French and slowed up the Second French Intervention.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
^this
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Just talked to a poblana to get another data point and she confirmed that not even in Puebla is it celebrated.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
It was basically invented to sell Corona to WASP Americans
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 May 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-civil-war/
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
That the singer from Stereolab is Laetitia Sadier and not Sadler.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
Only been listening to them for the last 30 years.
Heh. I've gone back and forth on that one.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Glyn Dillon is Steve Dillon's brother
I don’t do much comics work these days, so I was really chuffed to be asked if I’d like to do the cover for the new #bestof2000AD collection. I jumped at the chance because it features my brother’s iconic Cry of the Werewolf story. #SteveDillon #JudgeDredd pic.twitter.com/cD131r7vKG— glyn dillon (@glyn_dillon) May 11, 2023
― koogs, Thursday, 11 May 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 May 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Marianne Faithful was related to Leopold von Sacher Masoch who gave the world the term masochism. Is that quite Sade-y? I'm sure it could be Sadier
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
I wound up doing a tour of the Republic with Stereolab when I first came to Ireland in the early 90s cos I bumped into one f the guys who ran teh White Horse in Hampstead or possibly vice versa. Like I was sitting at a dublin bar and he appeared from behind me and said hey Stevo or something to that effect.I think Laetitia was quite generous with snacks and things
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
White HOrse guy was being tour manager/possibly sound engineer too. Sean O'hagan was in the band at the time too.
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
Roquefort is a really great cheese.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, one of the best. in small quantities though.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
so creamy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's pretty rich. I eat a lot of cheese, but for that reason, I haven't had a blue for snacking in long time. It kind of blew me away.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 11 May 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link