The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 6 hours agoNew names are hard, ok?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1402
arrow-up1402imageNew names are hard, ok?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 6 hours agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squareShutUpWesley@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·4 hours agoIn the west coast we typically just used the name of the native tribe we killed in order to take the land.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 hour agoOr the Spanish name from when the Spanish took the land a couple hundred years before.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoand then we say a prayer thanking the tribe every sunday at church, don’t forget that
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-222 minutes agoThey do it before everything from sports to classical music where I am.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 minutes agodo they explicitly thank the tribe in the prayer? i know they’re trying, but it’s kind of ridiculous.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 hours agoIn Oklahoma we just use the name of whatever tribe was forcibly relocated there. Although I know of one town that was named after a misspelling of an indian chief’s name. The Apollo 14 CSM pilot lived there.
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoYes, I visited Themdamninjuns last time I went through Illinois. for the purposes of my joke, many people wouldn’t have known - or cared to know - the names of the local tribes I’ve never been through Illinois
minus-squarefunkajunk 🇨🇦@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-23 hours agoIf you are making multiple asides, the standard approach is to use square brackets within the first parentheses, not double parentheses. e.g. The dildo was menacing and enormous (likely the biggest I have ever used [nearly 4 feet]).
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI had not heard of this before. Usually those are used when adding text to a quote for clarification. Is this mainly a British English thing?
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agofootnotes1. 1gotta use2 2go3tcha 3 better footnotes
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoNah I prefer feeling like I’m reading a 90’s chain email.
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoThank you. I think I have it now.
In the west coast we typically just used the name of the native tribe we killed in order to take the land.
Or the Spanish name from when the Spanish took the land a couple hundred years before.
and then we say a prayer thanking the tribe every sunday at church, don’t forget that
They do it before everything from sports to classical music where I am.
do they explicitly thank the tribe in the prayer?
i know they’re trying, but it’s kind of ridiculous.
In Oklahoma we just use the name of whatever tribe was forcibly relocated there. Although I know of one town that was named after a misspelling of an indian chief’s name. The Apollo 14 CSM pilot lived there.
Yes, I visited Themdamninjuns last time I went through Illinois.
If you are making multiple asides, the standard approach is to use square brackets within the first parentheses, not double parentheses.
e.g.
I had not heard of this before. Usually those are used when adding text to a quote for clarification. Is this mainly a British English thing?
footnotes1.
1gotta use2
2go3tcha
3 better footnotes
Nah I prefer feeling like I’m reading a 90’s chain email.
Thank you. I think I have it now.