Has anyone mentioned Dwight Falls yet?
Why is google pronounced like poodle, rather than like googie-egg or booger ?
ie gŹgle
John gŹgled. Betty gŹgled. Elizabeth ate a googie.
Because itās named afterā¦
Cheers mate. Iāll give them a try then. Appreciate it.
How many years old were you when you learned that the ā0ā and ā|ā on power switches was binary (1=on, 0=off)?
I was today years old.
I would have been able to infer it when I first learnt binary, back in 1969.
Is Bert newton dead?
About 20 years ago
I tried to learn binary, ā¦ but I always put in One Zero too manyā¦
Something about plastic being in Nature, . in Beehives, ā¦ in Honey,
ā¦ and Bees needing to actually make their own hives.
Farking with the natural order (some would/will say āvibrationsā) of the most fundamental life sustaining organism on the planet. A creature already under threat through many other greedy profiteering entities and practices, . etc etc.
Itās big on the Google if you want to get the nitty gritty.
NB: Sorry, ā¦ missed that post earlier.
Test, ā¦ Footy, ā¦ Storm V Broncos, ā¦ Walker Texas Ranger Marathon, ā¦???
If itās not too indelicateā¦
I was wondering what it was about Indian and English languages that makes Indian people misuse the phrase āisnāt it.ā
As in, āEveryone went to the football, isnāt it.ā
Itās kind of striking.
I found this:
"The reason for that is the direct translation of the āisnāt itā from Hindi.
Consider this:
The sentence " You were home yesterday, werenāt you ?" when translated to Hindi, would be written as āą¤¤ą„ą¤® ą¤ą¤² ą¤ ą¤Ŗą¤Øą„ ą¤ą¤° ą¤Ŗą¤° ą¤„ą„, ą¤¹ą„ ą¤Øą¤¾?ā
The āą¤¹ą„ ą¤Øą¤¾ā part directly translates to "isnāt it " in English. But unlike Hindi, in English, the tag question is formed by using the first auxiliary in the main sentence.
The Hindi speakers, therefore, take a bit of time to get used to the different rule(some never do) for forming a tag question in English, and use āisnāt itā in all cases."
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Indian-english-speakers-ask-isnt-it-so-much
One of my best friends does thisā¦ I thought it was just him!
Ok cricket question.
Does swing refer to sideways movement in the air (my understanding), or deviation off the pitch (what Iād refer to more as ācuttingā)?
They were just talking about the ball not swinging so much on the pitches the English ordered this year (they apparently ordered the same spec as last year), but I thought swing would be dependent on the moisture in the air, air pressure, bowlers grip and rough shiny seam angle etc, not the bit of ground underneath.
I reckon Iāve misunderstood this somehow, so help me out.
I think your thinking is correct.
Perhaps the pitches arenāt as dry and coarse as previously and donāt scrape up the ball as much?
Swing/Drift is ball movement in the air
Seam/Cut/Spin is ball movement off the pitch