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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 24, 2023, 04:41:56 pm ---Received the new issue and I've read the memoir by Werner Herog and the book review by Adam Gopnik already. He reviews a book analyzing the Old Testament. I've been trying to get more understanding about the persecution and enslavement of the Jews and the conflicting accounts of the early kings and their antics. This gives much clarity.
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I liked the beekeeping article. Who would have thought there could be so much controversy in beekeeping? Beekeeping has always struck me as something, I don' t know, genteel? Something done by someone with a cottage in the Cotswolds who doesn't have to work for a living (or for retired consulting detectives). The idea that apparently some beekeepers have actually come to blows strikes me as sort of Monty Python-esque.
serious crayons:
A (real life) friend on Twitter/X posted the image below of a New Yorker headline and said, "There are few things that signal elitism more than putting an accent on '?litist.'" He's joking -- he graduated from Yale, wrote a book and is fairly ?lite himself. I saw it too late to respond so I'll share my response with you: Could have been worse if the headline had included "co?perate or "re?lect."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 07, 2023, 10:36:37 am ---A (real life) friend on Twitter/X posted the image below of a New Yorker headline and said, "There are few things that signal elitism more than putting an accent on '?litist.'" He's joking -- he graduated from Yale, wrote a book and is fairly ?lite himself. I saw it too late to respond so I'll share my response with you: Could have been worse if the headline had included "co?perate or "re?lect."
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Notice how all your accented letters showed up as question marks? ???
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 07, 2023, 01:01:30 pm ---Notice how all your accented letters showed up as question marks? ???
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Now I do! Weird. Yet if I write "naive" even my spellcheck underlines it and suggests "na?ve." (I imagine this, too, will show up as a question mark.)
The other weird thing is the "preview" function shows them with the correct accents and even diareses.
ETA after checking back: Yup.
southendmd:
I believe the "?" thingie has been going on ever since Phillip/John moved us to whatever this format is called. All the old posts are loaded with "?"s.
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