[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

One that bugs me a lot that I noticed just in the last 5 years or so is over pronouncing the T in words like celebrity and community - yes it's spelled with a T but it's not fully voiced like you're saying the word Tea. I noticed it first on YouTube and now in some audiobooks and even the occasional coworker.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"outlaws" also being a verb makes this title difficult to understand

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The most recent interesting ones have been The Age of Deer(all about deer in North America from a social perspective), scarcity brain(how our brains seem rigged for gambling and how it affects our lives) and WordSlut(gender politics and how it interacts with language).

I've never been much into reading fiction, but would love good human-adjacent(ie not particle physics) nonfic recommendations.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I work in tech and often have to create accounts for testing or to hand over to clients. I was so happy when we hit 2019 and Jan 1, 2001 became a valid birthday, 01-01-01 in any date order.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I get these often and I wouldn't define them as third person but more "non-person". To me first person dreams are where I'm watching it through my eyes and Thurs person would be watching myself as I do things (like third person video games). Not even being in the dream, just a mind movie as you called it, seems like another level removed.

I wonder how much the amount of movies and video games around these days has changed this - whether dreams in the past would have only been first person because that's the only thing people had experienced.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You got me there, my brain did just jump to high O2

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I do the same and even though I'm still in the store I question if it's worth doubling back for that one forgotten item...

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I wish that our store layouts were consistent enough for this to work, I have to change my list order if I'm going to a different store, and remember idiosyncrasies like in one the condiments are at the entrance before produce...maddening!

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Way back around 2000 there was a creator who did this and called them unfortunate animals, she liked to make like a 3 eyes teddy bear with a crocodile tail and 9 arms. I think she also combined stuffed animal chimeras and taxidermy.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It depends whether I can somehow go back to the body of a 20 year old but keep my current 40 year old brain. I'm not going to pretend the majority of my improvements in patience, empathy, humility, work ethic and dgaf-ness are me consciously maturing instead of improvements in brain chemistry.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

ASL has very different structure to spoken/written English, so not everybody who signs is going to comprehend English grammar as fluently/easily or the nuance of all the words that don't have a sign equivalent.

Additionally ASL communicated who is talking and the tone of their words, even when the speaker is off screen, which just can't be captured by captioning. Closed captioning has just caught on to using slightly different colors to indicate the speaker, so you know who's talking offscreen. I've only seen this in British panel shows so far but it's helpful.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately only chrome has full support for Dragon professional, and Edge can be made to work. The dragon extension for Firefox stopped working and Microsoft, who now own dragon, doesn't have any incentive to fix it.

The unofficial supper via the ClickbyVoice extension doesn't have a Firefox version.

I would love to hear alternatives that support link numbering and voice commands :)

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