• 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"?

  • (nodebb)

    I'd also add that "genuinely" makes more sense than "sincerely" in the context of "useful service"

  • airdrik (unregistered)

    wrt claude verbs: I don't think those should qualify to be posted here, since it uses a very large dictionary of verbs, very few of which are in any way descriptive of what it may actually be doing. It's not like there's some flaw in the process that's accidentally being manifest as it's all very intentional.

    That said, it does offer some amusement as I have seen several (that come up with some regularity) that make me chuckle such as: finagling, flibbertigibbitting and combobulating, often making up words derived from expressions people have been known to use.

  • Steve (unregistered)

    As a dirt biker, roosting conjures up a different image.

    Roosting, in dirt‑bike / off‑road terminology, means accelerating hard enough that your rear tire throws a spray of dirt, rocks, or debris behind you, usually into the rider following you.

    So, Claude is on the gas... :-)

  • (nodebb)

    @airdrik - I judged it worthy of submission because Claude's verbs all relate to some form of non-somnolent action, whereas "roosting" is the opposite.

    Which brings us to...

    @Steve - that is really interesting. I'm a cruiser/bagger motorcyclist whose off-roading is limited to dirt roads, so I had no idea that this was another meaning of "roosting". From the off-road biking point of view, that totally makes sense to use as a "I'm actively doing something very actively" verb :-)

  • A Human (unregistered) in reply to thosrtanner

    lol

  • login doesn't work (unregistered) in reply to Birion

    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).

    The option doesn't actually work, but it's nice to have it, I guess.

  • (nodebb)

    @Steve: in power boating, the stream of white water arcing up and behind a powerful boat, and especially a jet boat, is called a "rooster tail". Because that's about what it looks like: the large showy arcing tail of an adult male chicken.

    When I was dirt biking back in Ye Olde Darke Ages, to spray dirt with your rear tire was "rooster tailing" by obvious analogy to the boat spray. I could sure see that being shortened to "roostering". Color me surprised that nowadays that's called just "roosting".

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    It's kids these days. They despise the beauty of our languages that took tens of thousands of years to craft. Instead they talk in smilies and shorthand all the time. Give it another decade and it'll just be called "R".

  • (nodebb) in reply to 516052

    Give it another decade and it'll just be called "R".

    Now you're 🐔ing.

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to Ralf

    When you are my age you are legally obliged to yell at clouds at least once a week.

  • Birion (unregistered) in reply to login doesn't work

    It does, though? I haven't seen a single Short since I put it to 0.

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