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Old 08-04-2020, 07:28 AM   #5261
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Maybe they were from another country and didn't understand that you meant aluminium.
Ha ha! That's one of my pet peeves! English speakers who think we need to all pronounce or call things the same world over. I enjoy the variety.

DW still talks about the time at the grocery store a gentleman kindly told her: "Excuse me, ma'am, I believe you have my trolley." I think he charmed her. Maybe I need to keep out an eye?

Much nicer than: "Yo, ya got my shopping cart."
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Old 08-04-2020, 07:43 AM   #5262
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Maybe they were from another country and didn't understand that you meant aluminium.

But wouldn't that come under the stupid category.
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I was asked what material were the Levelor mini aluminum blinds made out of, not once but twice. First time I replied aluminum, second time I replied macaroni. Both answers were posted on Amazon.
"Aluminum" was in the product name and description and the people used it in their question.
Thanks for an interesting story.

By the way maybe you can help me with a history quiz I am taking. Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?
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By the way maybe you can help me with a history quiz I am taking. Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?
That's a gimmee....it's the Unknown Soldier.
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Success with clichés. In one of Neil Sedaka's mini concerts a week or two ago, he had two clichés in the first two lines. His song choices for today's concert were Heart of Stone, Bringing Me Back to Life, and Super Hottie.

I also wish he wouldn't say "thank you" after each song, as if he's hearing applause.
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Unprecedented! I’m going to throw my drink at the TV the next time I hear it.
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Unprecedented! I’m going to throw my drink at the TV the next time I hear it.
I bet it will be the first time you've ever done that.
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Fonts that over-do sans-serif. When "Mentally Ill" looks like "Mentally Three" then you're using the wrong font. Why does anyone think it's acceptable to eliminate the horizontal lines of a capital I?
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Last month I moaned about copywriters going over the top with a pair of socks that boasted "tuned dampeners in the forefoot and heel and dynamic linkage in the midfoot ..."

Today I got an ad for a T-shirt, and one of the "features" they listed was:
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Convenient openings for head, neck, arms
I suppose I should be glad they didn't get too creative this time, but
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Fonts that over-do sans-serif. When "Mentally Ill" looks like "Mentally Three" then you're using the wrong font. Why does anyone think it's acceptable to eliminate the horizontal lines of a capital I?
It goes the other way too. A few years back, The Chicago Tribune changed their font (at least for the print edition, which I don't get anymore). When a word had two lower case "t"s together (like "better" or Everett" ), the horizontals of the "t"s (I assume that is a serif), overlapped and it looked like the symbol for "Pi" (π). Very odd looking. No one noticed this?

Another pet peeve, I couldn't recall how to type a Pi symbol, had to copy/paste. I know how to do degrees: ° (on my system "start" and oo) . Hmmm, "start" and PP gives ¶ (paragraph).

edit/add: OK, this will set the conspiracy theorists going: After submitting this, I turn to my email, and I just received:

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Today in Tedium: Typography has been one of the key ways that the computer has distinguished itself from more traditional physical forms. Here’s what I mean: In the 1930s or 1940s, if you wanted to change a font on a newspaper or magazine, you had to use a completely different set of blocks of metal type, and that process of switching blocks took time. Now, it’s a matter of literally selecting an item in a menu or changing a line of your CSS code. ....
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I almost put this in the vitamin D thread but I think this is better. The version of this almond milk that's on the manufacturer's website has 25% vitamin D. Walmart shows the same, but they sent me a version with slightly different packaging and zero vitamin D. Amazon also has the zero vitamin D version but at least they say so in their listing. So now I have to be home for Fedex on Monday.

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When a word had two lower case "t"s together (like "better" or Everett" ), the horizontals of the "t"s (I assume that is a serif)
I believe that is an example of "kerning."

Serifs are the small, dangly things on the ends of the strokes of a letter.

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I believe that is an example of "kerning."

Serifs are the small, dangly things on the ends of the strokes of a letter.

Might be a combination, I'll see if I can find an example, but if the serifs on the 't' are large, that could cause them to blend?

OK, here you go (from their 'digital print' version), you can see that the 't' doesn't touch other letters, but touches (or comes extremely close to) an adjacent 't' ("better"), looks like a Pi symbol to my eye:



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Out of an abundance of caution, I recommend you don't throw anything.
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The combination "tt" is often kerned closer together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning#Kerning_values

When I write "tt" in cursive, I use a single stroke to cross both t's. Do you cross them individually? I imagine that the kerning is meant to imitate the look of crossing them both with the same stroke, but that is just my speculation.
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It goes the other way too. A few years back, The Chicago Tribune changed their font (at least for the print edition, which I don't get anymore). When a word had two lower case "t"s together (like "better" or Everett" ), the horizontals of the "t"s (I assume that is a serif), overlapped and it looked like the symbol for "Pi" (π). Very odd looking. No one noticed this?

Another pet peeve, I couldn't recall how to type a Pi symbol, had to copy/paste. I know how to do degrees: ° (on my system "start" and oo) . Hmmm, "start" and PP gives ¶ (paragraph).

edit/add: OK, this will set the conspiracy theorists going: After submitting this, I turn to my email, and I just received:

Tales Of �������� ⌨️ (Was "Tales of Type", some chars not recognized)

https://tedium.co/2020/08/07/digital...m_medium=email


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What is happening there is the composing software has a feature where it substitutes a different character code to improve the on-screen or printed appearance. So the browser shows you one thing but the characters when copied are not interpreted correctly when you paste elsewhere.

EDIT: Actually, I am able to copy and paste that text successfully.
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The combination "tt" is often kerned closer together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning#Kerning_values

When I write "tt" in cursive, I use a single stroke to cross both t's. Do you cross them individually? I imagine that the kerning is meant to imitate the look of crossing them both with the same stroke, but that is just my speculation.
What's cursive my cursive looks like absolute chicken scratches due to lack of use....
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We had a weird thing like this happen last week. We'd gone to a friend's house and he'd taken DH downstairs to look at a tool in his shop. Later at home while DH and I were on the internet, DH mentioned that the guy had showed him a Murphy bed he'd built in a downstairs bedroom. The next morning, I started seeing ads for Murphy beds. Neither of us had ever searched for anything related to Murphy beds, only talked about it that one time. We then did an experiment by having a discussion about Viking ranges. Haven't yet seen any ads for them but we both disabled all app's access to the microphones on our laptops anyways.
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We had a weird thing like this happen last week. We'd gone to a friend's house and he'd taken DH downstairs to look at a tool in his shop. Later at home while DH and I were on the internet, DH mentioned that the guy had showed him a Murphy bed he'd built in a downstairs bedroom. The next morning, I started seeing ads for Murphy beds. Neither of us had ever searched for anything related to Murphy beds, only talked about it that one time. We then did an experiment by having a discussion about Viking ranges. Haven't yet seen any ads for them but we both disabled all app's access to the microphones on our laptops anyways.
I'd repeat that experiment over the next few days by talking about other products, and try to have the same things open on the computer as when you spoke about Murphy beds. Then, no matter the results I think I'd add a switch to the microphone and camera like I've been wanting to do anyway.
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We had a weird thing like this happen last week. We'd gone to a friend's house and he'd taken DH downstairs to look at a tool in his shop. Later at home while DH and I were on the internet, DH mentioned that the guy had showed him a Murphy bed he'd built in a downstairs bedroom. The next morning, I started seeing ads for Murphy beds. Neither of us had ever searched for anything related to Murphy beds, only talked about it that one time. We then did an experiment by having a discussion about Viking ranges. Haven't yet seen any ads for them but we both disabled all app's access to the microphones on our laptops anyways.
Been reading something about this stuff, more likely your phone knew your contacts ,pinged your location as your buddies house and since your buddy had a new Murphy bed decided to shoot you an ad in case you liked it. It's insidious. Your buddy at sometime probably googled murphy bed or a seller of the same.

Actually Timcast has an interesting Youtube video yesterday about how pervasive this stuff relating to the TicTok uproar..talk about contact tracing!!
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