Anders Christensen / is on Nostr

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2023-11-05 22:08:50

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Funfact: the bird 'kjøttmeis' ('great tit' in English) also have tit-related alternative names in Norwegian: tertit and talgtit.

2023-10-26 13:01:47

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And even 'buss' has a long history in Norwegian language. 'Avalsnesbussen' was the name of a vessel in the 1300s IIRC, when 'buss' or 'busse' as a type of freight vessel, with many ships called something-something-bussen.

2023-10-26 12:55:41

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Yes, 'trolleybuss' is borrowed from English, but English dictionaries seem to trace the term 'trolley' back to Scandinavian, though they do not seem to agree whether it is related to 'trille', 'tråle' eller 'trolle' or something else.

2023-10-26 12:39:00

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But but ... this is facinating, the company behind is called Sporveien Trikken, and except for å brief period in 2007-2013 the word 'sporvei' has been part of the company behind it from 1875 onwards ... even while they did modernize the name wrt Kristiania/Oslo.
But is a 'trolleybuss' also a sort of 'trikk'?

2023-10-26 12:19:11

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But isn't that circle logic?
I.e: we have just one word for it, because the synonyms that do exist are disqualified because they are lesser known.
'Sporvei' is more general than trikk, since it would cover cable cars and other things that are not electric, since technically, 'trikk' comes from 'elekTRIKsk'.
Yeah, and we have 'kabelbane', too.

2023-10-26 12:04:29

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Well, at least there is 'sporvei'.

2023-10-07 13:13:48

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And (10m)² ...
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2023-10-07 12:44:05

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Well, position and order matters in language.
As for special characters, I suppose most systems and keyboards have some mechanism for producing the most common ones. But I am kind of sceptical of solving what is actually markup by adding special characters. The ° is a proper character, but subscript and superscript 2 is usually just markup.

2023-08-01 14:11:00

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Just a thought, wouldn't it be technically possible to have an additional instance named something different, that subscribes to the same hashtags and users, in order to determine what the missing posts are, and then insert them into the feed of the users of the main instance?
At least it would be interesting to measure the amount of traffic lost due to banning.

2023-07-15 09:01:08

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Was that opinion piece written by the same people that in February 2022 predicted that Russia would surf through Ukraine and occupy Kyiv within 72 hours?