@Mitch Does it?

I remember, as a child, I absolutely refused to wear shoes with laces. I would only wear Velcro.

@Cerberus Well yeah...when you bend over to attach the velcro straps on your shoes, your wool scarf slips down and gets caught in so when you try to straighten up you basically strangle yourself.

That's science.

@Mitch The no. 2 cause of death in Scotland, I believe.

Fun conversation with "internet linguist" Gretchen McCulloch on the internet vernacular, its epochs and cohorts, and on tracking down in-person communication minutia in its typography and emoji: vox.com/podcasts/2019/11/25/20981722/…

She's the author of Because Internet.

@Færd minutiae

@Cerberus will be scandalized when he sees that.

> Here is an example sentence from the New Yorker magazine "One natural objection to the search for Dyson spheres is that it presupposes an endlessly consumptive technological teleology". What does teleology mean in that sentence ?

And can you please explain English to me again?

@Robusto The pronunciation audio is the best.

@Robusto Oops. I thought minutia was plural in construction, if not in form too. Maybe a quick corpus search could bear this usage out, but no matter. I'll switch to minutiae for minute details from now on.

@Robusto I looked away!

@Færd Good!

@Cerberus I just posted Christmas pics in the Pan if you're interested.

@Jolenealaska Ah!

@Cerberus Hi. Have you heard about Swapfiets?

I subscribed and got my bile two months ago. I suspect it's a sluggish bike. I pedal like I am being chased by a lion to get past another cyclist who seems to be quite relaxed and not caring how fast he is going.

@Robusto I don't understand a great many words in that sentence, but teleology one of them is not.

Hope that helps.