Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:

• I don’t know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don’t know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don’t know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.

I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I’m very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I’ve also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.

These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?

It reminds me of Vermeer’s Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?

A red Majohn A1 with a Pilot VP stub nib in place of the standard EF nib, Lamy Peridot ink.

That’s interesting. I wonder why we’re getting different results.

Different versions of xetex, perhaps? I’m using

XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)

A little out of date, as I haven’t got around to updating my Debian yet.

Did you try my minimal example? I don’t use xelatex, but I’ve just tried running it on my example code and the output is the same as with pdflatex.

Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
\end{document}

Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:

 \documentclass{article}
 \begin{document}
 My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
 \end{document}

My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.

I would be really handy for finding out what’s going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I’d imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?

I’m not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:

• https://lemmy.world/post/2131922
• https://feddit.uk/post/747976

My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk

I haven’t posted any comments since, so I don’t know if it’s a one-off thing.

Beehaw’s defederation of lemmy.world doesn’t seem to be involved in this one.

Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.

This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don’t believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.

But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.