Sure, but shuttle also rhymes with muddle in my East coast US accent, at least in normal conversation. I can force myself to slow down and really enunciate the T, but even then the difference is easy to miss.

Subtle is spelled weird, but rhymes with muddle. Do you also pronounce “mad” and “mud” the same way? With my accent they have the same first vowel sounds as saddle and subtle

Right? I’m about 10 minutes slower than the machine, but I’m happy to donate my services for free.

None of those languages have thorn in their modern alphabets.

And every example you pointed out is valid English. You should probably learn it if you are going to nitpick other people’s grammer

Op is one of those people who find it easier to read when words are spelled correctly and don’t shoehorn in a throwback letter that hasn’t been used in English for centuries.

Notably, there is only one language that still uses the thorn. Icelandic has less than 500,000 speakers worldwide. Also notably, Icelandic is not English and whether or not you’re bilingual doesn’t excuse poor spelling skills.

That and sex is the latin prefix for six and shows up in some math terms. But yeah, the name is just a pun

It’s very easy to miss if you aren’t looking for it. But if you keep an eye out, you’ll see most clocks with roman numerals do this.

Just imagine it entered common use through a Looney Toons skit where they had to “hold down” their inflatable fort or it would blow away. It’s not true, but it’s plausible enough you could just decide to believe it.

That is a terrible argument. Prior art is not required to be standalone. And if we start requiring it to be standalone, that calls into question almost every game out there. They almost all require some kind of operating system to actually run

The names Norway and Denmark are old and predate 1847 by centuries. “German Ocean” is an old term for the North Sea.

Norway was independent from Denmark at that point in time. So it was off the coast of Norway in the German Ocean (North Sea). And the expedition was sent by the king of Denmark, a nearby seafaring nation.

Looks like she continued to use her maiden name throughout her life. American schools seem to always use her French name, including using Marie instead of Maria. Partially because Americans can’t pronounce Polish names. And likely a significant cultural bias towards associating scientific advancement with Western Europe.

I think either “to” or “on” would be acceptable in that context. English likes to use “to” with attention, like in the phrases “pay attention to” or “draw attention to”, often emphasizing the change in focus. But you can also keep your attention “on” something.

As a native English speaker from the US east coast, I would probably have chosen “on”. Just sounds better to me to use “on” instead of “to” when there is no associated verb like “pay” or “draw”. Not sure why.

Newsweek is particularly bad with this. According to them, Trump “loses it” or “explodes” every time he makes a critical comment about someone else

The sentencing is in the article. 20-45 years, largely because they showed no remorse and claimed they would do it again

I don’t know. Usually the people who are upset by women as financial providers also criticize men who do “women’s work”. They don’t see the men as a threat to their egos though and don’t get as openly angry about it.

She is a narcissist, talking herself up and putting down the people around her. Constantly bulldozing over clearly established boundaries by deliberately misnaming Worf, harassing Picard and Odo after they’ve made it very clear they aren’t comfortable with her advances, and just completely dismissing almost everything her daughter says. It’s clear she just does what she wants and expects everyone to go along with it, making a dramatic scene if anyone objects.

She’s a rich bitch that doesn’t care about anyone except herself and only really seems to help people when it already aligns with what she wants. It’s understandable that Deanna only talks to her mother when pushed into it.

Such a small max length is a good indicator they aren’t handling passwords correctly. A modern website should be able to send and hash kilobytes of text without the user seeing a significant delay. Having a max size like this sounds like they are storing the password as text instead of a hash.

Or some dumb project manager said passwords longer than 24 characters look bad in the UI and wanted the limit.

To make the setup work, aye

Sphinx: You there, knight. I am the guardian of this place and cannot allow you to pass without a battle.

Me: My name is Ender, Sir Ender to you. And I’m a bit weary from my long journey here, would you accept a pun battle?

Sphinx: Aye, Sir Ender.

Me: Thank you, please move aside