Snowbank pliers
10.03.2026 20:16
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Snowbank pliers
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it's important for brave pioneers to be testing the outer limits of bacon, thank you for your service
tho I supposed it could be some sort of lexical diffusion
Yeah, I wonder whether this isn't just dialectical variation reaching a wider audience. Many Americans (afaik) say e.g."foo'ball", and I don't think (?) that's particularly new?*
* I say it, and I'm not particularly new.
WotD: cleaching. A technical term from baking for the issue where a cake forms a gummy layer at the bottom during baking.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2026/02...
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A lot of people — ok, maybe not the youths? — talk about "blogs" (to mean posts) in the way they also talk about "an insta" or whatever. Is that what's happening here?
Me, I hesitate about referring to "a substack" because I don't know what to call an individual entry on those platforms.
WotD: generative erase. This is (only?) Microsoft's term for what others call Magic Erase — using AI to remove bits of a digital image.
It _feels_ like there's something contradictory about combining "generative" and "erase", tho I do get what they mean.
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
but should he have even deployed this? hmm
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It this to explain, like, ablaut?
I've been getting ads for incontinence underwear, so there's that
PS we used to talk about the value of the question mark for the editor/author relationship :)
I suppose a way to think of this is as metacommentary on the text during editing — ?
Getting carded to prove you're old enough to get the senior discount seems like a fun flex
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WotD: leckdown. A portmanteau of "leaves" plus "neckdown", referring to a temporary reduction in street width at an intersection (neckdown) created by fallen leaves (leck). See also: sneckdown (snow + neckdown). Source:
www.strongsactown.org/2023/12/29/l...
Also iamnal, but including/not including these bugs has iirr zero effect on the strength of a trademark claim, e.g. not including them is not an encroachment
This might not be helpful, but we included symbols like this only if the holder was known to be litigious about their marks (e.g. a company whose name rhymes with horricle and one of whose products is a slang term for coffee). Otherwise, same as you — no obligation.
Both of these made it into our style guide (see below). The "by using" fix sometimes offends the "remove all unnecessary words" folks (see also: "in order to"), but clarity is vastly more important than reducing word count.
developers.google.com/style/word-l...
looking in after demanding that he be let out onto the rainy deck
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WotD: "mommune" (mom+commune) — "communal housing for women and their children".
www.mommune.org
One name is "initial-stress-derived noun". We could use a better term, tho :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial...
Engineering managers: Can't AI do that?
Editors: No.
WotD: "skillcation", aka "curiosity leave" ... "in which you swap the beach for knowledge. This could be either professional development, or learning a cool skill or hobby."
Another example of the libfixed "-cation".
Source: thehustle.co/news/why-chi...
I learned this term from an article (via Kottke) about how frozen juice concentrate is being discontinued my Minute Maid
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
WotD: "functional beverage", drinks that comes with health claims; these include "dairy drinks, sports and performance drinks, energy drinks, ready-to-drink teas, kombucha, "smart" drinks, fortified fruit drinks, plant milks, and enhanced water." (Wikipedia)
