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Can they do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?!?!?

Youngest Earth Creationist!

Maybe a little, and I personally try to reserve it for times when it means damaged to a significant degree but well under 50%, but then I also try to remember that language changes, English moreso than most, and I probably use a hundred different terms in ways that are inconsistent with past usage.

That said, I get a stronger sensation of that when people overlook the awfulness that should be inherent in the word "enormity." 😂

No true macros right now, but my DIY battlecruiser eight keys that do simple combos: Ctrl Z, Ctrl X, Ctrl C, Ctrl V, Win L, Win D, Win Shift S (Snipping/Screenshot tool), and finally Win Period because I'm a manchild who sometimes likes Emojis. I have another that does Media Play/Pause, and volume stuff is on the knob.

"Decimate" comes from "decimatio," a specific punishment in the Roman army, randomly executing 1/10 of a unit's strength, due to cowardice or some other shameful collective act.

See also "nappie," the largely British term for diapers, which of course would have exclusively been small absorbent cloths for most of their existence.

I'll borrow this from my contribution to a discussion yesterday, but Shakespeare coined fewer phrases than you'd think, and probably not very many words at all (though certainly more than the average schlub):

Dictionaries source by earliest known written use, and Willy Shakes was a unicorn for that purpose.

He was an upjumped middle-class prodigy from barely a century after the introduction of the printing press, with a mediocre education by the standards of the day, writing prolifically for both popular and elevated audiences. He was also famous enough in his own day to have had his collected works published, and the fact that his reputation exploded after his death ensured those volumes survived. He would have been writing slightly differently from many of his contemporaries, and a much higher amount of what he wrote has survived.

As a further aside, he's one of the best-researched non-noble lives of his era, and the "Authorship question" is the equivalent of History Channel Ancient Aliens "documentaries." It's titillating nonsense put out by snobs who can't fathom that their literary idol was not an elite (while still definitely privileged compared to the truly common person).

“Sculptors in antique Rome could fix mistakes they made by mixing marble dust with wax. If a sculptor was especially gifted and made no mistakes that needed fixing, they would market their art as “sin cera”, which means “without wax”, which is where the word “sincere” comes from.” (Source: Pooptimist@lemmy.world)

Extremely unlikely. Always be careful of etymologies that are just a little too pat. Sometimes they hold up, but more often they're just someone "seeing Jesus in the toast" and then making up some bullshit to justify it.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sincere

I am a big believer in being restrained and selective for fan-servicey retcons, but having it be a sore spot did make the ANH exchange more amusing:

When I left you, I was but a learner. Now I am the master.

Only a master of evil, Darth.

Sick burn, bruh. 😡🤺🦵🦵🔥

It clearly pissed him off enough that he refuses to finish the next book out of sheer principle.

Perhaps the wings are articulated ribs?

Absolutely! I also like to point people to the father and son who worked on reconstructing the Original Pronunciation.

The Elizabethan/Jacobean drama scene could be crazy (though there were also command performances in noble or royal households which would have filed down a lot of the rough edges), and it was both popular and rowdy. Theatres were always getting shut down for censorship or indecency, tons of drama (LOL) with poaching ideas and even talent, and there was even Renaissance media piracy! I think there are at least four mostly complete extant versions of Hamlet, all a little different, and at least two just simple pirate printings from printing houses sending dudes out with their memory and maybe a pencil and notebook. Then, many of the plays would have been collaborations. Much of Shakespeare's early and late output is thought to have involved co-writers.

Then, that's to say nothing of the theatre people getting salty about everything, not least this rube coming down from Warwickshire, acting like he knows how to write, and upending the audience expectations.