Activity for Fred Wamsley‭

Type	On...	Excerpt	Status	Date
Edit	Post #293400	Initial revision	—	13 days ago
Question	—	Why does the Foreign Legion code of honor use "tu"? Of course, it's addressed from the high command to subordinates. That points to "tu", but there are a couple of reasons that might have called for "vous". Before I forget to paste the link, scroll way down at http://foreignlegion.info/traditions/. It's addressed to all Legionnaires. So it's plur... (more)	—	13 days ago
Edit	Post #293399	Initial revision	—	13 days ago
Answer	—	A: Calling another by name when one is exasperated A China-born online friend said that she knew she was in real trouble during childhood when her mother addressed her by the long form of her name. (more)	—	13 days ago
Edit	Post #291218	Initial revision	—	11 months ago
Answer	—	A: Is there a freely available sentence patterns search engine? I just tried this in an LLM and it went straight to "affixed". The prompt was "fill in the blank in the sentence". (more)	—	11 months ago
Comment	Post #289988	Surprise is by far the most common form, but there's a minority of jokes that for some reason are always funny. I don't know why I laugh out loud almost every time I read the comic at https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism-and-vaccines. And I just got yet another mild chuckle out of the xkcd about ... (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #290446	Initial revision	—	about 1 year ago
Article	—	Pronunciation apps? So here I am with a device in my pocket that has a microphone and what would have been considered a supercomputer not that long ago. Couldn't it, in principle, be programmed to display a vowel, invite me to say it, and analyze the sounds I was making to issue diagnoses like "round your lips more"... (more)	—	about 1 year ago