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Cold on a Cob posted:English in India contains a number of archaic English expressions and words. Some seem to be going away; I haven’t seen “do the needful” in quite awhile for example. i get emails every week telling me to "do the needful"
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Mr. Crow posted:i get emails every week telling me to "do the needful" yeah but those are from me
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Mr. Crow posted:i get emails every week telling me to "do the needful"
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Dec 15, 2023 00:33
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all the mails I get say "please revert"
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Were they from an older generation where benedictions were more commonly used? no but they did have a very old taste in jumpers most people get a "regards, $name" or a "thanks, $name" unless I'm pissed off and then they just get $name
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Dec 15, 2023 00:51
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cool people get my first initial, and if they’re really cool they start doing it back
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Dec 15, 2023 01:06
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you mean they just start drawing a big "L" on all your work?
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just walking around the office like
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my boss signs off with =)NAME I use mvh* Name externally and /Name internally * med venlig hilsen = with kind regards, danish boilerplate basically everyone starts with Hej/Hi Name, freaks and weirdos write Kćre/Dear
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Dec 15, 2023 06:46
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Cold on a Cob posted:English in India contains a number of archaic English expressions and words. Some seem to be going away; I haven’t seen “do the needful” in quite awhile for example. a surprising amount of instances of the word cum as well
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Jabor posted:you mean they just start drawing a big "L" on all your work? I knew someone whose name had three Ls as initials and would sign off with L3
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Dec 15, 2023 19:59
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I knew someone whose name had three Ls as initials and would sign off with L3
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I knew someone whose name had three Ls as initials and would sign off with L3 sounds like they were very unresponsive
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Dec 15, 2023 20:35
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"prepone" is probably my fave Indianism. because it isn't a word in standard English, but when you hear it in context it makes complete logical sense lol
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Dec 15, 2023 22:20
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Chris Knight posted:"prepone" is probably my fave Indianism. because it isn't a word in standard English, but when you hear it in context it makes complete logical sense lol
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Dec 15, 2023 22:29
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Chris Knight posted:"prepone" is probably my fave Indianism. because it isn't a word in standard English, but when you hear it in context it makes complete logical sense lol is that the opposite of postpone? i love it and will use it in the future
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Carthag Tuek posted:is that the opposite of postpone? i love it and will use it in the future
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Dec 15, 2023 23:22
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that's definitely a word I've heard used in regular English I mean not often but.....
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Carthag Tuek posted:my boss signs off with =)NAME J
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Dec 16, 2023 03:10
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also if you have correspondents in the us military, they almost all universally use v/r or very respectfully
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Subjunctive posted:there was a thing recently that I can't find (but trust me!) where a Russian cyberoperative was trying to manipulate or trick or whatever a person at a UK college by impersonating someone, but it was detected because the chancellor had banned the "hope this finds you well" sort of email prelude though not the thing in question and not even really the same class of linguistic tell, but lol@ https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1684573361526169601 recently frequent use of "dear friends" as the literal translation of the common formal soviet "дорогие друзья" is the one that usually stands out to me
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Dec 16, 2023 04:03
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I know of the idiomatic Japanese expression that literally translates to "it cannot be helped". "He is going to lose, it cannot be helped" You find it in anime translations sometimes.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I know of the idiomatic Japanese expression that literally translates to "it cannot be helped". “it can’t be helped” is an idiomatic English expression. the Japanese phrase that’s commonly translated that way literally means something more like “there is no way”.
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NFX posted:I knew exactly what you were talking about and spent way too long trying to find it. […] i feel very strongly that ya'll need to know about dame sally mapstone I appreciate your diligence; I gave up too easily it seems
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Dec 16, 2023 15:04
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shikata ga nai. and it's also the name of a metasploit payload encoder
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champagne posting posted:a surprising amount of instances of the word cum as well https://drdo.gov.in/120-mm-penetration-cum-blast-pcb-and-thermobaric-tb-ammunition-mbt-arjun
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Dec 17, 2023 15:47
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I guess cum blasting is the next frontier of warfare
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Achmed Jones posted:shikata ga nai. and it's also the name of a metasploit payload encoder There's also "shouga nai", which means "there is no ginger"
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so apparently some moderately well-trafficked anonymous economist website is notorious for racism and sexism, as anonymous sites are often wont to be. the problem was the anonymity was coming from an unsalted hash of the users ip. someone figured this out, brute forced the IPs, and put out a paper identifying the racist and sexist stuff coming from basically every major university https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1197956091/econ-job-market-rumors-ip-addresses the website is calling this hacking and went to what's obviously a definitive source, ChatGPT: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/07/20/study-says-it-found-ip-addresses-anonymous-ejmr posted:EJMR sent an email saying, “you may wish to consider what a neutral actor (ChatGPT) thinks about the study.” here's a sample thread with the 4 digit hex codes included. shocked it took someone this long to try to reverse it https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/are-you-safe-or-not-from-doxxing-chart
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Dec 18, 2023 14:17
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"a neutral actor" oh my god it's not a magic genie you loving rubes
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Dec 18, 2023 14:22
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it's not even an actor. these people are too stupid to breathe
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Dec 18, 2023 14:28
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it's like the default mode for the bluechecks on Twitter when replying to an actual expert to do the "well i asked ChatGPT about this and"
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Dec 18, 2023 14:31
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the best part of chatgpt is i can immediately disregard the opinions of anyone who brings it up as a source
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spankmeister posted:it's not even an actor. these people are too stupid to breathe well, they’re economists, so clearly there’s a market for someone to handle the breathing for them while they handle the higher value work (posting racist poo poo on pseudonymous forums)
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Chris Knight posted:it's like the default mode for the bluechecks on Twitter when replying to an actual expert to do the "well i asked ChatGPT about this and" lol of course the kind of people who are willing to give elon money are also eager to defer to the magic robot daddy about everything
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uninterrupted posted:so apparently some moderately well-trafficked anonymous economist website is notorious for racism and sexism, as anonymous sites are often wont to be. the problem was the anonymity was coming from an unsalted hash of the users ip.
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racist economists you say? well now ive seen everything!
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they're also dumb as poo poo and make sweeping generalizations about unrelated fieldsquote:If you post from home using a private ISP such as Cox or AT&T, hundreds of users literally share the same IP. It's not possible for them to pin a specific post to YOU.
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haha amazing.
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They don't seem very knowledgeable about security so someone should probably just create some fake "see if you were doxxed by the ip address leak" site to trick them into entering their actual names
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