The following is an extract from Frankenstein. What does the "habits" in "returned to my old habits" mean? It does not seem to refer to habits like drinking, staying up late, etc. If it refers to something else, how would you express the idea in current English?
Who shall conceive the horrors of...
The Narayan challenge generated 16 questions. The Maupassant challenge reached 18 questions (or 19, depending how you look at the first Richepin question). And it pushed the french-literature tag into tag badge eligibility.
The next "language" for a tag badge would be russian-literature but that one has not received a lot of questions lately.
@Tsundoku Even leaving aside the issue of blind users (which is important but a lot of people don't bother themselves about it), posting images of text is bad for site searchability too.
Not to mention copy-paste-ability if anyone wants to use that passage/information anywhere else later.
Also, it's not the right of the search engines, rather than the right of the human employing the search engine. The computer doesn't (or oughtn't) profit from searchability rather than the people searching.
@NapoleonWilson Lack of searchability is an inconvenience for everyone, regardless of disability, while inaccessibility is a human rights issue for people with disabilities. That's a rather important distinction. Searchability has been used as an argument for alt-text for ages, but only legal requirements can really enforce anything.
This poem is taken from The Fellowship of the Ring, book II, chapter 1 (page 263):
Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien;
He built a boat of timber felled
In Nimbrethil to journey in;
Her sails he wove of silver fair,
Of silver were her lanterns made,
Her prow was fashioned like a swa...
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the August–September 2020 topic challenge.
Based on the number of votes, the eighth topic challenge of the...
In the BBC mini-series Little Dorrit there is a scene in which Mrs. General tells Amy the correct opinions which she is to express concerning the sites that she and other English tourists visit on the European mainland. Amy asks why she should not just give her honest opinions of these things. Mr...