I’ve seen people call it GQ: new name, but the same great two-letter brevity of PE

I’m primarily focusing on organizations and places and anything that isn’t a single individual person changing names, to be clear

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we either put it in virustotal, spin up a VM, and run the thing without network access, and just hope for the best

welcome

I can definitely see a Derry/Londonderry situation forming regarding the city’s name. I prefer the name Port Elizabeth though, I have a thing for feminine given names and linguistics. Oh, and that linguistics obsession of mine has granted me the ability to do the Gq-click. And I’m not even South African!

And my brain is still obsessed with trying to ask as many South Africans as possible about the city’s name so… thank you for the answer, haha

Speaking of South Africa, what do people in the Eastern Cape call that large city? You know… that city that got renamed? (If you still don’t get it, I’m referring to Port Elizabeth)

Almost forgot to mention but here in the Philippines, our basketball teams are the ones with the sponsored names…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Philippine_Basketball_Association

There’s so many I’ll pick a random one: A picker tool. I play a game called OpenTTD and pressing F to select a decoration object I’ve already placed instead of scrolling through the menu and accelerating the rate at which I develop carpal tunnel to find the object

learning keyboard shortcuts

stop it

medieval crossed out :slight_smile:

instantly renaming a large city

More The Expanse. More Chrisjen Avasarala. More!

New technology is good; but the new way we’re going about it (including but not limited to anti right to repair, privacy violations, extreme capitalism) is bad. We need to separate the two.

I just use HTML entities to type en and em dashes. — -> — – -> –

Oh nice Lemmy supports these entities.

I am actively considering IPv6. But I don’t have it yet. Now I’m just waiting for my ISP to consider it :)

Fuck ISPs that insist on keeping you stuck in CGNAT jail without a routable IPV6 prefix!

Did you know? French, Italian, and Spanish are all Romance languages; they are part of a large family of languages that evolved from Latin over hundreds of years. That’s why they’re similar. While I don’t have the necessary citations on hand, learning a language might make it slightly easier to learn, or at least have a basic “I know a few hundred words” understanding of its sibling languages.

(I saw that other people have typed similar things but I already wrote it so I’m just gonna send it anyway.)

That’s an extreme offense, and thus, requires an extreme amount of evidence.

There are plenty of feminine given names that roll off the tongue incredibly well. Names like “Anna” and “Elaine” and “Katherine” do not begin to scratch the surface… But again, I pay more attention to names than the average person because I am obsessed with linguistics, and that obsession is what made me click this thread and type out a reply in the first place.

I’m sure the AI devs so lazy they cannot train their AI on anything other than scraped HTML can set up a Lemmy instance and point their crawlers at that.