Jakylla

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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

A (wo?)man of culture

 
[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a non English native: "Car on"

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 112 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Missed opportunity:

Sadam necktie

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

"And next time, I'll make baby toys that glow in the dark with Uranium"

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Ah en effet, my bad, je retire mon message ;)

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803

And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on !xkcd@lemmy.world)

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Not sure CrowdStrike runs on npm, but still ruined it all for sure

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Twitter PR review

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Gotta use Lisp notation to be sure

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 92 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"No" is the most accurate I could ever have imagined for Inkjet Printers

 
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Ghoti (s3.amazonaws.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3511115

Title text: I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.


Transcript[The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:] T: As in buffet u: As in minute e: As in record s: As in use d: As in moped a: As in bass y: As in gyro

 [Caption below the panel:]
 Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides


 

(Inspired by Reddit post of the last month)

 

What can we talk about on this new Community about fonts, others than the most controversial font of all time ?

What do you think about Comic Sans MS ?

Do you use it ? Did you use it in the past ? Will you use it in the future ? Why ?

What do you like or dislike about this font ?

 

source: ~~Twitter~~ X: Snufkin - 2022-05-09

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Irritable vowel syndrome (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
 
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Did you know the words for "Snow" ? (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
 

My source: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2710

(Initial source, in image footer, seems to be down)

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