Here we go again:
I don’t care about the story’s content or subject — on my interest scale, the hobbies of little fegelehs who jump into water rank somewhere below the sex lives of tarantulas — but FFS.
The knitting term is “PURL” and not “pearl”, you illiterate fucking scum of the earth.
There will come a time when I go over to Britishland and pay a visit to the offices of the Daily Mail, carrying my trusty cricket bat. It will not be a pleasant site*.
*I know. I just thought I’d pass it on. Or you can take it as a pun. Whatever.
It’s possible – not certain, but possible – that this was a pun, rather than ignorance.
Diving for pearls, geddit?
But please, do not take this as discouragement towards your visit to the Daily Fail.
“It will not be a pleasant site*.”
I saw what you did there, you sly boots! I would assume that it would also not be a pleasant sight at the site. I’m old enough to remember what the nuns beat into me so many years ago.
The bun is the lowest form of wheat.
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Anent Pearl/Purl.
I’m concerned that the communist revolutionaries (little social torpedo worms that they are) are deliberately and systematically working to destroy the English language. (And possibly any language.)
BITS OF EVIDENCE:
Captions on photographs. (“Tagging pix” for the generations who get all their input from phone screens.)
The traditional method is to use one of two methods. Left-to-right or clock/anti-clockwise. (l-r) Paul, George, Ringo, John, that being their usual arrangement on stage. Or. (clickwise from to Left.) Paul, Ringo, John George. (Not referring to any real picture.) But hold those two pose arrangements in your mind. These days, you’re quite likely to find (actually, almost universally) The order changed as though the arrangements of the tags were tossed into a Yahztee cup and shaken like dice, then rolled on the table. It actually takes more time and thought to use anything but these two defaults (although with larger groupings things can get … complicated.
Television closed captioning.
These are generally intended to help hearing impaired folks, so they can share in the joke.
The problem is that those writing the captions, (possibly artificial idiots), seem utterly unaware of certain social facts — like place names, prominent persons, literary allusions, or what was JUST THIS MOMENT said in the dialogue onscreen. Either AI is far stupider than any of its proponents admit, or they’re deliberately fucking with you, and in the process degrading the general public use and awareness of language.
Kamala Harris
Is put forth by some as some kind of genius. No, I’ll allow you that some geniuses tend to talk in babble and make no sense to those not hooked into the genius’ private delusions, but I can see at this remove, Harris ain’t one of them.
Now, Kim has accused me on this here porch of being too literate. I’ll cop to that. But even so, my standards are not so high that “normies” can’t understand me. (I don’t think.) And I may be being paranoid, but I think it’s a Marxist psyop to degrade the ability of Western Civ to communicate with itself.