"here" in this case is Ireland, although what I said follows for the UK also.
"Sidewalk" is really only used here when singing "Because of You" by Kelly Clarkson.
(Incidentally, "footpath" is used here more than "pavement" to refer to where pedestrians walk beside a road. I intentionally didn't mention that before as the discussion was around the usage of the word "pavement" in both versions of the language.)
Yep, some here said "Happy Hallowe'en". Most said "trick or treat". In my day, it was "help the Hallowe'en party". Saying "trick or treat" is relatively recent here; like I said, in about the last 20 years, and that's down to US TV programmes.
I don't know if kids here still have Hallowe'en parties...
Reading through that Wikipedia article it makes mention to Hallowe'en being a celebration of the end of the harvest and the 1st day of winter. Ireland still refers to 1st November as the 1st day of winter, whereas as most countries use 1st December. All of the season in the Irish calendar are 1 month before everywhere else, still following the original pagan dates of yesteryear; so 1st Feb is Spring, 1st May is Summer, and 1st August is Autumn. The seasons are centred on the 4 main solar events (the equinoxes and solstices), having these events marking the middle of said season. Hence June 21st is mid-summers day for us, whereas for Polish people it's the first day of summer.
We're special that way.:)
Also, daffodils are in bloom in early February here. And leaves are falling from the trees in Autumn.
"All Hallows Eve" is the original name, I believe, and it has evolved from there. Wikipedia has a nice article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In Ireland the bonfire is very traditional. The kids go door-to-door for sweets, although costumes these days are no longer based on being scary (a few witches turned up at my door this year, but no ghosts. I had one kid on a unicorn, a Spiderman, a Batman, and some kids in traditional Indian attire). Following on from getting their sweets, everyone normally heads to the local bonfire.
The thing is, the bonfires are illegal. Once it's lit not much can be done about it, but it's common for the authorities to look for the wood stashes and take them away in the days before, or to turn up at the bonfire site before the fire is lit and take everything away. So in the weeks before you see the local kids (as the kids run the bonfire!) hiding wood, and splitting up their stashes in case any are found.
Unfortunately many bonfires end up with tires, rubbish bins, bikes, and all sorts of other crap in them. Anything not locked down can end up in the fire. And this is one of the reasons why they try to stop them from happening.
"zed" comes from "zet", hence the pronunciation in non-US English. In the US it became "zee", and the only reason I can think of is to make it rhyme. If you are now living in Britain, I would suggest your daughter learn "zed" or she'll just have to re-relearn the letter once she goes to school. That said, if I were raising a kid in the US I'd teach them "zed"...:)
Here, 'biscuit' is what Americans call 'cookie', the flat round snapable wheat-and-sugar thing that can be dunked in tea. The term 'cookie' is normally only used with the words 'chocolate chip' before it. Sometimes it refers to a larger and softer (maybe even gooey) biscuit, and may be prefixed with 'American', in this context.
What Americans refer to as 'biscuits' we could call scones or bread rolls or something similar. A scone is the closest thing we have to that type of 'biscuit', but this isn't quite the same.
Here, "pavement" means the path for pedestrians at the side of the road. "Pavement" is never used for a road surface. So, here, there is no ambiguity, and "pavement" is equally as specific as "sidewalk".
With the amount of US TV programmes aired on this side of the Atlantic, it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between the too, mainly because of the amount of American English that has crept in to daily use. And, of course, the ubiquitous use of the Internet, where everything blends.
I sometimes find myself debating with myself what the correct term is for various items. I'm probably one of the few that doesn't talk about 'cupcakes' (preferring Queen cake), or who might only use 'cupcakes' for the variation that has more icing that cake. I find myself using 'throttle' instead of 'accelerator', although I never use 'gas pedal'. By others, 'Sidewalk' (over pavement or path) is become more and more used, and I'd suggest that Kelly Clarkson has something to do with this (Because of You).
Spelling gets harder too. Some words, like colour and centre (and the other -our and -re words), are fine, probably because we are more aware of these being 'wrong' on your side of the Atlantic.:P But words ending in -ize or -ise can start to get confusing. Spelling-wise, these would be the spellings I debate with myself more. Spell checkers don't always help unless you can be assured that you have the correct version of English installed -- some apps don't have British English, opting for only American English. So when you see something underlined in red, you tend to stop and think to yourself "I'm I wrong or is the computer?", and more often than it should be, it's the computer.
And looking up words online generally means finding the US English version of the word.
So, yeah, they are blending a lot, and there isn't much can be done about it. Thankfully kids here still say "zed" at the end of the alphabet, but I fear that'll change in the near future. "Trick or Treat" has also become prevalent here with kids going door to door for Hallowe'en - that's only in the last 20 years or so.
"The iPhone X's 5.8-inch OLED display includes a taller height to width aspect ratio of 19.5:9, 22 percent larger than the 16:9 aspect ratio on previous iPhone models (and most other smartphones)"
But not most other flagship smartphones. Samsung, LG, Google, and other, are now all shipping 20:9 ratio screens (personally I wish they would have just stuck to 16:9...). The Samsung S8+ has a 6.2 screen, higher resolution (2960x1440), Super AMOLED, 529ppi screen, and doesn't have a chuck cut out of the top.
Even the S8, which has a 5.8" screen the same as the iPhone X, has the same higher resolution (at 570ppi), a full 20:9, and no missing chuck at the top.
If I were an iPhone person, I wouldn't be buying the iPhone X because of that stupid chuck they cut out. (And the lack of a headphones port. I didn't buy the Google Pixel XL explicitly because there's no headphone socket.)
I would have expected them to be spread out globally, considering that apple have datacentres globally. It would make sense that asking Siri a question would mean Siri would connect to the closes datacentre to a get the answer, rather than one on the opposite side of the world.
Unless apple run all of their servers worldwide on PST or something...
The vast majority of my non-work PC-type stuff is on my phone. There are some things that are more convenient to do on my laptop, but the phone is right there and I can use it to perform the task just fine. For a few rare things I use the laptop, but the vast majority of the time I use the phone.
Could I use it in work? Probably not. But at home I rarely use a PC these days.
Prior to having the phone, my laptop would be beside me on the sofa. Now it's in the office upstairs, out of the way, and powered down.
Looking out your windows you'll see what the weather is like in that direction. You then need to move to the other side of the house to check the weather in the other direction, or go outside to check the weather in all directions. One side of your house could show blue skies, and the other a dark ominous cloud moving in. The sun might be out and the ground dry, but it could still be sub-freezing temperatures -- you can't see the temperature.
Simply asking your watch/phone/computer/tablet/... about the weather will give you an idea of the forecast, whether rain is expected despite the blue skies, what the temperature is like, etc.
I look out the window each morning, but still look at the forecast on my watch or phone.
If this was a DST issue, surely Europe (and a lot of the non-US DST-setting world) would have been affected last week as most would have changed their clocks on the last Sunday of October. Was this an issue then? Or was this only affected by the US DST change? In which case, why is Siri worldwide affected by US DST only?
It's upsetting how many web sites tell me a valid email address is invalid because the developers don't use a library that parses it correctly and don't bother looking up what is actually valid. Apostrophes and pluses are the main characters they get wrong, among others.
Because it has mass -- to move it will still require a proportionately appropriate amount of force.
Weight is caused by the effect of gravity upon mass (mass is in kilograms, weight is in Newtons). Any object in free-fall has no weight (as g is 0 at that moment in time), hence why astronauts on the ISS can 'float'.
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The article mentions that he will build a second rocket to go higher. It is to that rocket that I am referring.
...so does some science!
He believes the Earth is flat, and wants to build a rocket so that he can go up and take a look for himself.
So he has an hypothesis and is going to build and experiment to either prove or disprove it...
Maybe his definition of science is a bit different from mine, though...
"speed ramp" here. :P
"here" in this case is Ireland, although what I said follows for the UK also.
"Sidewalk" is really only used here when singing "Because of You" by Kelly Clarkson.
(Incidentally, "footpath" is used here more than "pavement" to refer to where pedestrians walk beside a road. I intentionally didn't mention that before as the discussion was around the usage of the word "pavement" in both versions of the language.)
Yep, some here said "Happy Hallowe'en". Most said "trick or treat". In my day, it was "help the Hallowe'en party". Saying "trick or treat" is relatively recent here; like I said, in about the last 20 years, and that's down to US TV programmes.
I don't know if kids here still have Hallowe'en parties...
Reading through that Wikipedia article it makes mention to Hallowe'en being a celebration of the end of the harvest and the 1st day of winter. Ireland still refers to 1st November as the 1st day of winter, whereas as most countries use 1st December. All of the season in the Irish calendar are 1 month before everywhere else, still following the original pagan dates of yesteryear; so 1st Feb is Spring, 1st May is Summer, and 1st August is Autumn. The seasons are centred on the 4 main solar events (the equinoxes and solstices), having these events marking the middle of said season. Hence June 21st is mid-summers day for us, whereas for Polish people it's the first day of summer.
We're special that way. :)
Also, daffodils are in bloom in early February here. And leaves are falling from the trees in Autumn.
"All Hallows Eve" is the original name, I believe, and it has evolved from there. Wikipedia has a nice article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In Ireland the bonfire is very traditional. The kids go door-to-door for sweets, although costumes these days are no longer based on being scary (a few witches turned up at my door this year, but no ghosts. I had one kid on a unicorn, a Spiderman, a Batman, and some kids in traditional Indian attire). Following on from getting their sweets, everyone normally heads to the local bonfire.
The thing is, the bonfires are illegal. Once it's lit not much can be done about it, but it's common for the authorities to look for the wood stashes and take them away in the days before, or to turn up at the bonfire site before the fire is lit and take everything away. So in the weeks before you see the local kids (as the kids run the bonfire!) hiding wood, and splitting up their stashes in case any are found.
Unfortunately many bonfires end up with tires, rubbish bins, bikes, and all sorts of other crap in them. Anything not locked down can end up in the fire. And this is one of the reasons why they try to stop them from happening.
"zed" comes from "zet", hence the pronunciation in non-US English. In the US it became "zee", and the only reason I can think of is to make it rhyme. If you are now living in Britain, I would suggest your daughter learn "zed" or she'll just have to re-relearn the letter once she goes to school. That said, if I were raising a kid in the US I'd teach them "zed"... :)
Here, 'biscuit' is what Americans call 'cookie', the flat round snapable wheat-and-sugar thing that can be dunked in tea. The term 'cookie' is normally only used with the words 'chocolate chip' before it. Sometimes it refers to a larger and softer (maybe even gooey) biscuit, and may be prefixed with 'American', in this context.
What Americans refer to as 'biscuits' we could call scones or bread rolls or something similar. A scone is the closest thing we have to that type of 'biscuit', but this isn't quite the same.
Here, "pavement" means the path for pedestrians at the side of the road. "Pavement" is never used for a road surface. So, here, there is no ambiguity, and "pavement" is equally as specific as "sidewalk".
English has its roots in Greek and German too.
People generally don't like change, especially when it comes to their culture and traditions.
People are so used to seeing bad spelling online that it's likely nobody would react.
With the amount of US TV programmes aired on this side of the Atlantic, it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between the too, mainly because of the amount of American English that has crept in to daily use. And, of course, the ubiquitous use of the Internet, where everything blends.
I sometimes find myself debating with myself what the correct term is for various items. I'm probably one of the few that doesn't talk about 'cupcakes' (preferring Queen cake), or who might only use 'cupcakes' for the variation that has more icing that cake. I find myself using 'throttle' instead of 'accelerator', although I never use 'gas pedal'. By others, 'Sidewalk' (over pavement or path) is become more and more used, and I'd suggest that Kelly Clarkson has something to do with this (Because of You).
Spelling gets harder too. Some words, like colour and centre (and the other -our and -re words), are fine, probably because we are more aware of these being 'wrong' on your side of the Atlantic. :P But words ending in -ize or -ise can start to get confusing. Spelling-wise, these would be the spellings I debate with myself more. Spell checkers don't always help unless you can be assured that you have the correct version of English installed -- some apps don't have British English, opting for only American English. So when you see something underlined in red, you tend to stop and think to yourself "I'm I wrong or is the computer?", and more often than it should be, it's the computer.
And looking up words online generally means finding the US English version of the word.
So, yeah, they are blending a lot, and there isn't much can be done about it. Thankfully kids here still say "zed" at the end of the alphabet, but I fear that'll change in the near future. "Trick or Treat" has also become prevalent here with kids going door to door for Hallowe'en - that's only in the last 20 years or so.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
Google are working to make the web a better place for me, an end user. And, as an end user, I can only see this as being a good thing.
literally...
... 18:9 ratio
(my bad)
"The iPhone X's 5.8-inch OLED display includes a taller height to width aspect ratio of 19.5:9, 22 percent larger than the 16:9 aspect ratio on previous iPhone models (and most other smartphones)"
But not most other flagship smartphones. Samsung, LG, Google, and other, are now all shipping 20:9 ratio screens (personally I wish they would have just stuck to 16:9...). The Samsung S8+ has a 6.2 screen, higher resolution (2960x1440), Super AMOLED, 529ppi screen, and doesn't have a chuck cut out of the top.
Even the S8, which has a 5.8" screen the same as the iPhone X, has the same higher resolution (at 570ppi), a full 20:9, and no missing chuck at the top.
If I were an iPhone person, I wouldn't be buying the iPhone X because of that stupid chuck they cut out. (And the lack of a headphones port. I didn't buy the Google Pixel XL explicitly because there's no headphone socket.)
I would have expected them to be spread out globally, considering that apple have datacentres globally. It would make sense that asking Siri a question would mean Siri would connect to the closes datacentre to a get the answer, rather than one on the opposite side of the world.
Unless apple run all of their servers worldwide on PST or something...
Apple's OS is a unix-based OS, just the same as Linux. So it's hardly superior to Linux...
Windows, on the other hand...
The vast majority of my non-work PC-type stuff is on my phone. There are some things that are more convenient to do on my laptop, but the phone is right there and I can use it to perform the task just fine. For a few rare things I use the laptop, but the vast majority of the time I use the phone.
Could I use it in work? Probably not. But at home I rarely use a PC these days.
Prior to having the phone, my laptop would be beside me on the sofa. Now it's in the office upstairs, out of the way, and powered down.
Looking out your windows you'll see what the weather is like in that direction. You then need to move to the other side of the house to check the weather in the other direction, or go outside to check the weather in all directions. One side of your house could show blue skies, and the other a dark ominous cloud moving in. The sun might be out and the ground dry, but it could still be sub-freezing temperatures -- you can't see the temperature.
Simply asking your watch/phone/computer/tablet/... about the weather will give you an idea of the forecast, whether rain is expected despite the blue skies, what the temperature is like, etc.
I look out the window each morning, but still look at the forecast on my watch or phone.
If this was a DST issue, surely Europe (and a lot of the non-US DST-setting world) would have been affected last week as most would have changed their clocks on the last Sunday of October. Was this an issue then? Or was this only affected by the US DST change? In which case, why is Siri worldwide affected by US DST only?
Learn how to properly parse an email address!!!
It's upsetting how many web sites tell me a valid email address is invalid because the developers don't use a library that parses it correctly and don't bother looking up what is actually valid. Apostrophes and pluses are the main characters they get wrong, among others.
Because it has mass -- to move it will still require a proportionately appropriate amount of force.
Weight is caused by the effect of gravity upon mass (mass is in kilograms, weight is in Newtons). Any object in free-fall has no weight (as g is 0 at that moment in time), hence why astronauts on the ISS can 'float'.
Have a read of this book, specifically the essay "The man who massed the earth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...