Chinese characters. Presumably they’re not Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Pardon my ignorance - what’s ‘play with my nuts’ a reference to for Carter, aside from his gonads?

But David Spade looks like him. I know what you mean about Martin Short’s vivacity though, he’d be a fine Wonka, whose idea was it to cast Chalamet

*counsel you. I’m picturing a police officer comforting a suspect who’s sobbing with a hand on their shoulder haha.

You mean the proprietary ones that came with your iPhone? Well that covers every use case anyone could ever have.

Fucking Sony, they’re mad for proprietary shit in the name of protecting the company and completely fuck over the paying user in the process

I was wondering if it was a reference to something

Birth certificate says William. Card says moops

Less be da villan

wtf?

It’s a pretty terrible feature then. Feature is a weird word

Removed by mod

Now let’s do Rolling Stone!

That one was deliberate actually - some pompous reformer (possibly Dr Johnson or a follower) decided we needed certain spellings to be more like Dutch. That’s where the H came from in ‘ghost’ as well, used to be ‘gost’ like in ‘most hosts’

Loch is different, you mean more like ‘lock’, or ‘autochthonous’

All languages do, English is just a title holder

That’s a slightly different phenomenon called a mondegreen (Hendrix singing ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy’ etc)

Caco = shit (same as caca/kaka in many European languages

Daemon = background program that does things without user input

-iacal = suffix turning the above into an adjective

So, Windows 11

It’s striking how different it sounds. I have knowledge of Latin, French and German, and Portuguese sounds way more like a German dialect on casual overhearing than the one it’s derived from or its modern descendant it’s closely related to!

Exactly! A segue between the inventor’s life and death!