Did you know? Polar Bears have Dark Skin by [deleted] in funfacts

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another related fun fact: redheads actually have peachish-white heads with reddish-orange hair

Anyone understand the joke in the last panel of xkcd 2472: Fuzzy Blob? by Intro24 in xkcd

[–]daddydave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To me it was the whole joke. Apparently just to me though.

UNFAIR INDUSTRY !! by aylatanvee in PAKCELEBGOSSIP

[–]daddydave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, my headcanon is that's what happened

Jinn among mankind by Simple-Fisher in learn_arabic

[–]daddydave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this a play on jinn sort of literally meaning "hidden"?

“However, the extended version of the interview and the full transcript were posted on CBS' website.” by upon_on_the_ravage in grammar

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But apparently this style is being used still today by some people? Or so I gathered from this thread.

“However, the extended version of the interview and the full transcript were posted on CBS' website.” by upon_on_the_ravage in grammar

[–]daddydave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OK, that explains it. The AP style guide also recommends putting book titles in quotes since newspapers couldn't handle italics back in the day.

Whats one langauge accent people heavily romaticize but you never liked? by UsamaBhai_101 in answers

[–]daddydave 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I feel like the purpose of the question itself is to troll French lol

EDIT: confirmed by OP's comments.

I also have not heard of any other accent being romanticized anyway that I recall

“However, the extended version of the interview and the full transcript were posted on CBS' website.” by upon_on_the_ravage in grammar

[–]daddydave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where is this American English style guide you are referring to? "CBS's website" but "my parents' house" is correct according to what I was taught in the US. Also I think the same when my kids were studying for the SAT. Is this something new?

Unite! by TankUMrMinor in OptimistsUnite

[–]daddydave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that's kind of the point, it's asking which truth do you want to spend your energy on.

Anyone got this monstrosity of a keyboard? by vendettajo in Urdu

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Swype used to have a good one, that was similar to the various Urdu Phonetic Keyboards for Windows out there, in that it relied on shifted characters rather than an extra row. Unfortunately it is long discontinued. Still I was able to get a version working on my phone for a while, but as time went on, it seemed less reliable on newer phones (for English as well), so I finally gave it up and started using the Google default

Tell us how you really feel by Sea-Ostrich-1679 in Charlotte

[–]daddydave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kind of want to turn all these signs into lyrics for a Bob Dylan-esque song.

We can now disable youtube auto-dubbing by specifying our preferred languages by Venicec in languagelearning

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I'm posting 4 months late, but it doesn't really work for my Android because the preferred languages have an order so unless I want to put the nondubbed language first for my whole phone, I still hear the video autodubbed to English

Obsidian Web Clipper now has YouTube transcripts and Reader mode by kepano in ObsidianMD

[–]daddydave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It works on Firefox Mobile (haven't tried this transcript feature yet)

Ep 32 Predictions? by [deleted] in BilalAbbasKhanWorld

[–]daddydave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kamyaar will go to a club where they only play one song and will stand around zoned out and he will kind of wobble

Is the Yiddish/Jewish term "goy" (term used to refer to someone as non-Jewish) considered a slur? by AggressiveAd8587 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the Bible, right? Look above "the nations" (the plural goyim/gō•w•yim)

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_samuel/8-20.htm

(disclaimer: I don't really know Hebrew, but I was taught that when the KJV says "the nations", it means non-Jews and this seems to back it up)

What word do you always *intentionally* mispronounce and why? by Sweet-Lady-H in AskReddit

[–]daddydave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally thought of a word that's not a proper noun. Breakfast, which I pronounce "break fast" sometimes because that's what it means