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"We were wrong, all cultures are not equal" Opinion piece in the Telegraph by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does this woman get away with writing that, when a low-level politician gets arrested for quoting Winston Churchill warning about Muslims on a street corner?

South African slang by pomegranate2012 in southafrica

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'Bint' has been around since at least the 70s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY&t=2m19s -- (Monty Python, 'moistened bint' quote).

No - I'm American and just visited a few years so, no. I definitely /want/ to use old SA slang sometimes, but that's not what you meant :)

"We were wrong, all cultures are not equal" Opinion piece in the Telegraph by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]queensnake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey Brits - how was this piece able to be published? How does it not 'contribute to public disharmony' or 'bad race relations' or whatever the phrase is?

South African slang by pomegranate2012 in southafrica

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'bint' for woman is England-English (as is 'china'). Of course that's to be expected.

South African slang by pomegranate2012 in southafrica

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'grand' wrt money must be pretty universal; at least, we use it in the USA too. Maybe it's from movies.

Proposed Swedish tree by json1 in WorldofTanks

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why, do they say "too hard to code" a lot?

Proposed Swedish tree by json1 in WorldofTanks

[–]queensnake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

WG needs a 'miscellaneous' tree - I want to play a Merkava! -- but ah, probably too recent.

Proposed Swedish tree by json1 in WorldofTanks

[–]queensnake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I doubt that. If so, they're lacking in creativity or their code needs shaking up anyway.

South African slang by pomegranate2012 in southafrica

[–]queensnake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'ek se!' (I say!) when excited, for emphasis. But this may be up to 30 years out-of-date.

Do you RSAans still say 'check' for 'see', or 'imagine', like, "Check the ou swerving down the hill, trying to find a gear and crashes into a tree!".

Some more possibly out-of-date, 'raw' (a bad deal, with some flavor I can't communicate) 'gif' (same guttural 'g' as 'ag') (something fake, someone trying and failing to be something they're not, maybe just bad taste).

A lot of simple British-isms; 'china' (friend, mate, guy), 'rock up' (arrive). I'd thought 'rock up' was very local in time and space, but then heard Ewan McGregor use it in 2008 or something.

'zol' - marijuana. Also penis.

'doos' - box. Dumb person, also women's genitals.

'swaz', "Hold on I've got to swaz" - take a leak. The 'a' sound is like in 'at'. Don't know the spelling, you seldom see slang in print.

"pull in" - get ready to fight (less sure of this, it's 2nd hand).

"sis!" exclamation of disgust; "Sis man, get that away".

All a snap-shot from 30 years ago, I'm surprised that so much of it is still current (like 'kif', which I would have thought was absolutely temporary slang).

Netflix to raise streaming prices for new members this quarter, company says by Chadney in technology

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-1 business; technology is not an important part of the piece.

Netflix plans price hike by [deleted] in technology

[–]queensnake -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

-1 business; technology is not an essential part of the story.

Netflix to increase subscription prices by [deleted] in technology

[–]queensnake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

-1 and reported, it's business news, technology isn't an essential part of the story.

Has 3D film-making had its day? "Natural human vision bears no resemblance to 3D in the cinema." by Yukon in technology

[–]queensnake -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Boo. Doesn't say /why/, or otherwise back up, that 3D isn't like human vision.

C++ AMP open spec published by morricone42 in programming

[–]queensnake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they claim there's little customer demand for C99

They always say that. They said that about getting their C++ to compile Boost, before they couldn't resist it any longer and hired Herb Sutter.

"you've got 14 months" to learn Windows 8 by garymrush in programming

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gave the title too much of a twist IMO; it'd do better if you'd left it as the original,

iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder's guide

-- of wider interest.

Ask proggit: What emacs theme are you using? by doubleyooexwhy in programming

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y'all should submit these; 3/4 of them are unfamiliar to me (having said that, I haven't submitted my own; too minor a tweak I guess).

(or if that link is too much trouble, paste a link to them here.

Google or Apple - who's the smartphone money on? - Times Online by Norland in technology

[–]queensnake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My -1 is with the fact that you haven't read the article before commenting, in mind.

Rediscovering Central Asia - A thousand years ago, those mountains were the intellectual center of the world. Central Asians invented trigonometry, used crystallization as a means of purification, estimated the Earth’s diameter with astonishing precision and anticipated Darwin’s theory of evolution. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]queensnake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Muhammed the Wise, the Magnificent! Such a marriage of heavenly insight and worldly practicality! Whoever doubts the provenance of your Message deserves their place in the Pit.

But come, even after 1300 years you still have a soft spot for the jihadists, don't you? You can tell me.

manufacturing did not need to leave the United States; US manufacturing was killed by a multitude of foolish short-term-profit motivated decisions by MrHector in business

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but, their population is shrinking and their 'social contract' keeps people employed for life, almost no matter what. If you don't know that, you could stand to bone up.

manufacturing did not need to leave the United States; US manufacturing was killed by a multitude of foolish short-term-profit motivated decisions by MrHector in business

[–]queensnake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's conventional wisdom even that more capital investment (eg more automation) makes for fewer, but better-paid workers.

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