[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.

@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Both, really. Maybe it helped that my first time was really only speaking to waitstaff or hotel employees, or pharmacists (I’d gotten a cold)? That first time my French was my worst, high school French and I’d been out of school 2 years (did not go to university right away). The next time I’d been to university and minored in French, and the last time I was with my wife’s family, who are French.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

My experience in France has been closer to one of the blue colors. They seem to very much prefer when someone at least tries, even if they’re struggling.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It’s very helpful. One note, at least in the edition I had, they use endnotes instead of footnotes, so they’re at the back of the book. It’s not quite as helpful unless you use one or two bookmarks to keep your place as you go back and forth. The book itself is riveting, though, and just about every chapter ends on a cliffhanger (since it was originally serialized a chapter at a time in a newspaper) that makes you want to keep reading.

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submitted 4 days ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30928435

In middle school I read The Three Musketeers and enjoyed it overall. Later in high school a movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was released and I enjoyed it enough to read the book. I feel like I lucked out in picking up the Robin Buss translation. It was a recent translation based on the most complete original texts he could find. He explained how the first anonymous English translations would sometimes edit the story to fit English sensibilities of the era or simply not be very good at translation. The book is full of endnotes explaining things, like references that would’ve been obvious to contemporary readers but are largely lost to anglophones over a century later, or things that simply don’t translate well, like an important scene where a character uses the formal vous tense instead of the informal/familiar tu tense but this distinction doesn’t exist in modern English. It made me want to re-read The Three Musketeers in a translation by Buss, but the only other Dumas work he translated before his death at the age of 67 in 2006 was The Black Tulip.

Have you read Buss’s translation of The Count of Monte Cristo? Have you found a similar translation you liked for The Three Musketeers? Searching online the most helpful listings I’ve found are a couple old Reddit threads where it seems like the two recommendations are those by Richard Pevear or Lawrence Ellsworth.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Demo available for Mac and Windows on Steam, trailer shows planned Linux support. I’m going to have to check that out later, it looks chill.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I’ve previously heard:

I owe, I owe, it’s off to jail I go
Don’t ever mess with the IRS
I owe! I owe, I owe, I owe!

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@manxu@piefed.social previously worked on a dating app for a large Internet corporation and got some interesting insights as they examined the data from their service

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525

An interesting history of a brilliant machine thought lost and the man who created it, and the mundane forces of history that kept it from the world.

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@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social among other places

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Jen is loading DVD's into a donation box. Admiral: Stop!! You can't get rid of our DVD's! What if the streaming sites go down?! - Admiral: What'll we watch if there's an apocalypse? The NEWS?! Jen: You're right! DVD's are essential for survival! - Admiral: We still have a DVD player, right? Jen: I mean... probably

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[Jim Benton] fffft (i.imgur.com)

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Artist website: https://www.jimbenton.com/

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SpoilerFour panels, all panels show two spiders dangling from a web. The first panel has the spiders dangling side by side with no dialog. In the second panel, the spider on the right has swung out to the side, away from the spider on the left, but still without dialog. In the third panel, still without dialog, the spiders are back side-by-side as in the first panel. In the fourth panel, still side-by-side, the spider on the left asks, “Did you just fart?” The spider on the right replies, “No. OMG. No [sic]” The urgency of the denials suggest that the spider on the right did fart in the second panel but is embarrassed.

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SpoilerOverheard in the Newsroom post from May 18, 2016

Editor, while reading a viewer email: “Huh. A guy with an AOL email address doesn’t like the new graphics. Imagine that.”

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 247 points 2 months ago

I feel like anon could’ve researched this online ahead of time

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submitted 3 months ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

It’s kind of worse when you see it on the map, because it appears to be running parallel to an existing developed area, like they built a bypass through the rainforest for the climate summit, not a road for someplace previously unconnected.

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submitted 3 months ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.world

Hayes Barton is an older, prominent neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. It has many large houses, lots of old money families, and I had always assumed it was named for a prominent older family or families, perhaps the owners of the land before it became a neighborhood. Today, though, I learned that it was named for the house where Sir Walter Raleigh was born, Sir Walter Raleigh of course being the city’s namesake. The house still stands today but is a private residence, not open for tours. I read that Sir Walter wanted to buy the house but Queen Elizabeth I would not let him, wanting to keep him in London close to her.

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submitted 3 months ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

I had two BlackBerry devices for work, right about the time they were going away. I'd heard the keyboard was good on earlier models but it seemed like the quality had gotten pretty cheap on the later phones. The BlackBerry 10 OS on my last phone was actually pretty good, and probably would've kept them in the market if they'd launched it 5 years earlier.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31805552

Can someone go check on Cincinnati? I think they might be having some mental health issues.

It's delicious fyi

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submitted 4 months ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

On !linuxmemes@lemmy.world @Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world explains one way some companies get pushed into paying for Linux, and not just for support reasons.

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I don’t even care about Chicago’s sports teams but the pain was palpable from the writer/sportsfan.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 273 points 7 months ago

Anon avoids a predator

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 247 points 7 months ago

In all my years I've never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.

Well then your friends suck

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 270 points 8 months ago

Are you sure this isn’t a scam?

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 293 points 1 year ago

But usually I’m pausing a video to try to read text that appeared too briefly in the video!

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