• Birion (unregistered)

    YT Shorts are pure evil. Strangely, Google, despite their policy of "Be Evil", do allow you to get rid of them (well, technically, you can "only" limit your daily amount of shorts to 0 hours, but that's just semantics).

  • (nodebb)

    Claude has a lot of odd words. I've seen it say "Claudeing" on occasion

  • (nodebb)

    I was going to submit the USPS one, but figured someone else will. Glad I was right on that.

    Also, was being lazy about getting the screenshot of the subject.

  • Jason Stringify (unregistered)

    ""The USPS offers a sincerely service..." Did Adam really want to say that? I have no idea what it means.

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    "sincerely [useful] service" ?

    As for Claude, quit roosting on the job!! Actually, the word origins for both "roosting" and "resting", which I might have thought were slowly-split evolutions of the same word, aren't connected and their origins are neat:

    Roosting

    • Old English: Comes from hrōst.
    • Meaning: Meant "wooden framework of a roof."
    • Perch: Specifically referred to the rafters of a house.
    • Birds: Birds regularly settled on these high wooden beams.
    • Verb: Shifted to mean birds settling for sleep [1300s].

    Resting

    • Old English: Comes from rest or ræst.
    • Proto-Germanic: Root is *rasto-.
    • Measure: Originally meant a league or a distance measure.
    • Distance: The distance one walks before needing a break.
    • Shift: Evolved from the distance to the break itself.
    • Peace: Connected to German Rast and Dutch rust.
  • (nodebb) in reply to Hmmmm

    This is neat - thank you for posting! As a language nerd I love finding out the etymology and origins of a word or phrase. Could you post the source from where you got those etymologies?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Jason Stringify

    Thank you for pointing out the "sincerely" service. I've been using (and abusing) English for over sixty years and have no idea what the word was supposed to be. "Useful"?

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