> * 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 38 ― After a ewe has been shorn three times she is called a twinter ewe, that is, a two-winter ewe.
> 1892 Award cited in High Crt. of Justice (1892), Chanc. Div. (Coulston v., Harvey), ― The Plaintiffs are entitled to 11 gaits 2 twinters and 2 claws or··22 a. 1 r. 35 p. And the Defendants to 2 gaits and 1 claw or··3 a. 2 r. 5 p.
> C. 1000 Ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 117/20 ― Trimus, uel triennis, uel trimulus, ðri-winter.
For uel, read vel if that helps.
1890 Cornh. Mag. Oct. 382 ― One of our thrunters, or three-winter-old ewes. A. 1898 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 339 ― ‘Twinters’ and ‘th[r]inters’, sic like names for sheep.
@Robusto Just because we cannot antedate him doesn’t mean he neologued all of those himself. They may simply have been in the zeitgeist, for otherwise the audience would not have understood him.
Is there a word in the English Language to specify the object of a sentence? Like [subject] [predicate] ... namely [object]. Is "namely" the right word? It doesn't quite hit the mark.
@Cerberus Moroccan? Really? What is the historical reason for that (I would think they would rather go to Spain or France.) Not indonesians? (I know immigrants are not necessarily in the underclass, but that is often the case).
@RegDwighт Is this a trick question? It is not 'object'?
The question sure sounds to me like "Is there a word in English that means exactly 'Schwarzenegger' and nothing else? I considered 'Dudikoff', but that doesn't quite hit the mark."
@Mitch Indonesiërs and Surinamers are somehow better off than Moroccans, most of the time. Moroccans and Turks were brought in for cheap labour fairly recently, in the 60s/70s. And they came from the most rural, mountainous areas in either country.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hmm would games that require a Tegra-3 GPU work on that?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hmm but they will, in the near future...
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Was that your previous phone? I forgot what it was called, except that it was a Nexus. I'm not good at remembering arbitrary bits and pieces...
@Cerberus That is easy to remember, except that Samsung has a million phones each year and they're ALL Galaxy, and so they dilute the brand by also having Galaxy W, Galaxy Q, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Ace Duo, Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy Ace Q.... it's impossible to keep track of
I think they should just use years or sequence numbers for a couple brands
but then I also think they should restrict the number of different phones they sell
If you just want to install stock Android on some new phone, do you need to tweak it a lot to work with the phone? Or does it work the other way around, that they manufacture the phones with special hardware configurations for Android? Or is Android more like Windows, in that it will normally run on any machine with a basic x86 chip thingy?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I even downgraded my old HTC, because Windows Mobile 6.0 had better GPS than 6.1.
@Cerberus Android is a lot like windows. It will run on any system that it supports. (Technically, Android is Linux). But: most phones are so custom, and the ARM family of processors has historically made interoperability difficult, so you at least need phone-specific drivers, and sometimes a phone-specific kernel
Why don't they just use the same series of CPUs in all budget phones (but at different speeds), and have Google implement support out of the box for those CPUs in Android?
Isn't it rather that they want to use their custom shells for advertisements / brand awareness?
And it only offers me "English (Indonesia)", "English (Malaysia)", "English (Pakistan)", "English (Philippines)", "English (Singapore)", "English (Thailand)", and "English (Vietnam)" as english locales
@Cerberus yes, all the other crap in there. graphics chip, memory controller, io buses, cameras, networking gear, cell radio, etc, etc,
sigh so in order to update the phone to the latest version of its software, I have to update to each version that was released, in sequence. I hope there aren't many of these!
> Nexus 4: 8GB for $299; 16GB for $349; available unlocked and without a contract on 11/13 on the Google Play store in U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Canada.
@IceBox Oh, I haven't seen it. Can't we collect all the wood splinters of Noah's Ark scattered around the world in reliquaries? We could build a few towers of Bable from that wood, and more. Then we'd be dry.
I went outside this afternoon. Behind the trees, extending from the horizon to just above the treetops, was a blue wall. I've seen it once or twice before. I'm not sure what the dimensions were, but I figured it was at least 200-300 feet tall. I'm not sure if this was a man-made structure or a natural phenomenon. Can anyone here shed some light on my experience?
> Dat heeft er ook mee te maken dat ze daar geen 3,5g, oftewel HSDPA(+) achtige snelheden hebben zoals wij hier in west-europa, dus daar is de nood voor bandbreedte wat hoger als de landen die met GSM werken. De paar GSM netwerken die er daar zijn, en in theorie hiervoor zouden kunnen zorgen, zijn nou de net de kleinste, met de minste dekking.
Is it true that they don't have 3.5 G in America??
Are those the CDMA networks?
Do their GSM networks have 3.5 G?
Because then I might understand why 4G is so hyped up there.
> [In Android 4.2,] Google has added widget functionality to the lock screen, meaning you can quickly glance at information without having to get into the phone.
@Cerberus yeah it's interesting. essentially, the LTE networks are primarily CDMA networks, in the US. And thus you can't sell unlocked phones for them.
The wireless charging thing is neat. If only it also activated wireless USB. But at least it will be easier to charge my phone at night, when my wife is already sleeping, and I can't find the USB cable in the dark.
I couldn't care less, as long it isn't insanely hideous or shatters to pieces the moment I touch it.
> We've added this new feature called "gesture type". Let me show you. — So this is like Swype, right? — Whether it's like Swype or not is...is...less interesting, because <irrelevant bit>."
Hmm they do have one nice feature, which shows you the recognised word while you're still swyping. I think the new Swiftkey "flowing" will have that too.
These names are so fucking funny.
Stupid patent + trademark system.
We have Swype, Slide It, Swiftkey Flow, and Android Gesture Typing.
> [From an explanation by someone from Google about their new functions:] Google needs to combine public facts about the world with your personal information. Of course Google will know when your wife is going to be home and where she is.
> The highlight is support for Miracast, an industry-standard Wi-Fi display sharing protocol that allows new devices like the Nexus 4 to stream audio and video to TVs. (Think AirPlay with broad industry support.) Miracast boxes for existing TVs are expected to go on sale from a variety of companies soon, and Google expects them to cost well under $99.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 There's your wireless display sharing for existing televisions...
> [In 4.2,] you can swipe directly into the camera, which is a huge improvement.
WTF
You can already do that.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 This seems to be the heart of the matter:
> there's essentially no such thing as an unlocked CDMA device
Possible Duplicate:
Why is it “geometric” but “theoretical”?
“Ironic” vs. “ironical”
“Comic” vs. “comical”
“Historic” vs. “historical”
What's the difference for instance between ironic/ironical, rhythmic/rhythmical, historic/historical, comic/comical, economic/economical? If thes...
No difference at all.
They're the same derivational adjectivizing suffix -ic, which sometimes adds an additional adjectivizing suffix -al, just to sound more officializational.
But there's no meaning difference at all. Any more than there is between soft-shell crabs and soft-shelled crabs. T...
We have a whole frigging tag for that kind of questions, with spectacular answers by Kosmo, and at least one by John Lawler himself showing how -ic is not the same as -ical.
@Cerberus that is my point. Everybody must be drunk.
I can’t decide whether to put the equator at 0° metric latitude and the south pole at –100° metric latitude and the north pole at +100° metric latitude, or whether I should put the south pole at 0° metric latitude, the equator at 50° metric latitude, and the north poll at 100° metric latitude. Either way the north pole is 100° metric latitude, but whether we have signed or unsigned latitudes in the question.
I’m sure you can see how infinitely superior that is to the stupid old imperial 360° system.
After all, who has 360 fingers? Very stupid system, that.
Is there a word in the English Language to specify the object of a sentence? Like [subject] [predicate] ... namely [object]. Is "namely" the right word? It doesn't quite hit the mark.
No difference at all.
They're the same derivational adjectivizing suffix -ic, which sometimes adds an additional adjectivizing suffix -al, just to sound more officializational.
But there's no meaning difference at all. Any more than there is between soft-shell crabs and soft-shelled crabs. T...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…