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They can kill the penguin but they can’t kill the idea
Just for some context:
Watch your l*nguage, my dear
lugal@lemmy.mlto Science Memes@mander.xyz•I thought it was an easy question ...English141·8 months agoStill even people new to writing have a good intuition about that but formalizing this intuition is a different story
But I’m allergic to almonds and gluten intolerant!
No Klein bottle? Not even a small one?
lugal@lemmy.mlto Science Memes@mander.xyz•I thought it was an easy question ...English122·8 months agoPlease, it’s w*rd, we want to keep this f*mily friendly
Who’s there?
lugal@lemmy.mlto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy InfintiyEnglish91·8 months agoI once heard that monkeys will just go to the typewriter, tipe the same letter a few times and leave. Doesn’t sound like Shakespeare to me
When you put the screen on the wrong side…
lugal@lemmy.mlto Rough Roman Memes@lemmy.world•Velites, Signifers, and Nero intensifyEnglish1·9 months agoFrom my understanding, old Latin had the sound /w/ and it later shifted to /v/ while keeping the letter, hence early loan words have “w” like “wine” and later ones have “v” like “vernacular”.
And you are right that the letter was used for the vowel /u/ too, how did I forget about that. So “vv” would be /vu/ (~voo). But I think Latin never had both /w/ and /v/ sound at the same time.
As someone who remembers the time before spotify: people were pirating alot so legal streaming was the way to end this but giving a usable alternative