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Playing with words. Seriously. (Tweets by Eric Chaikin)

Katılım Nisan 2020
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Martin's Music
Martin's Music@XMartinsMusicX·
think these were quite big in the US but not so much in the UK? 🤔 Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch (1981) ▶️
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Beyond Wordplay
Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
And even more fun - Merriam Webster lists a possible pronunciation of SON OF A BITCH as “sumbitch”. So technically there would be silent N, and F, and an “absent M”.
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@kristinatastic Well since you asked - other than PASSERSBY and the various -FUL words (JARSFUL, SPOONSFUL, etc), there is one other solid (no spaces or hyphens) internal plural in Webster’s Third Unabridged: PATERFAMILIAS > PATRESFAMILIAS. But there is a more fun one.
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kristina v. saint
kristina v. saint@kristinatastic·
I've been working on this important list for a couple of years now. What am I missing?
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@nazirafzal Clip stopped before the immortal dialogue: Michelle: “I could pick that arse out of a line-up.” Liam Neeson: “Well… let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
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nazir afzal
nazir afzal@nazirafzal·
For the tape, I am reminded of how brilliant Derry Girls was & how Liam Neeson foreshadowed his Naked Gun reboot brilliantly BTW, there is no tape
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SpartanBow
SpartanBow@CNNallstar·
@NBA_NewYork @grok who was on the floor and was Carmelo Anthony traded to the Knicks before or after this game
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New York Basketball
New York Basketball@NBA_NewYork·
“You just watch in awe. He held it…0.5 seconds left…he was confident it was going in, no rebounds, no nothing. That ball was being buried" — Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni on Jeremy Lin's Toronto game winner this day in 2012 The Moment of Linsanity 🔊
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Beyond Wordplay
Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@george__mack Phantom Tollbooth and Long Distance Runaround, followed later by Gödel, Escher, Bach.
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George Mack
George Mack@george__mack·
I have a theory that everyone consumed a piece of media between 9-13 years old that is the foundation of their entire worldview. Everything they learnt since was stacked on top of this. Asking this is one of my favourite ways to get to know someone.
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@__paleologo So if we’re understanding correctly, being part of the Mandelbrot set just uncovered complex dynamics which ultimately descended into chaos?
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Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)
Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)@__paleologo·
Another little story. Until the early 90s, IBM Research in Yorktown served free lunch. The chef was named Jean-Jacques. I recall Mandelbrot having lunch with his friends every day. Alan Hoffman, Charlie Bennett, and many other cool dudes were there, and you could just eat with them. Then, IBM had a major crisis. They laid off 40% of the workforce. They started charging for lunch every day except Monday. Then, they laid off Jean-Jacques and charged every day, but coffee was free. Then, coffee was free only Mondays. Still, Jean-Jacques catered at my wedding. We all knew each other, because we all ate together. Years after I left, I visited my old pals. I stopped by the cafeteria for coffee. As I was leaving, the server stopped me "You have to pay for coffee." and I: "But it's Monday!" and he: "They started charging last week." And that's when it dawned on me that IBM was really, deeply screwed.
Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo)@__paleologo

A minor lesson I learned. Hudson River Trading has large cafeterias in all of its centers. And an abnormal amount of communal spaces (alcoves, booths, meeting room). You sit for lunch and talk to strangers or old friends. I estimate that premier real estate space (and the chef-served lunches) to cost $20-30m/yr. It is a 100x return/yr. Eating together is how you get people to lower their defenses, talk, trust others, collaborate, create alliances since the Pleistocene. And the lesson is that you can win at technology by going back to very simplest, ancestral things.

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The Notorious
The Notorious@camlibelive·
On 2 July 2013, a massive Proton-M rocket lifted off from a launch site in Russia. Just seconds after liftoff, engineers realised the rocket had veered off course. The triple sensors indicating the rocket's "up" direction had been installed backwards, causing the rocket to receive completely incorrect information about its position. Although the guidance system attempted to correct the situation, it was too late, and the rocket exploded violently, breaking apart.
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@Anthony_Etherin In America, the same anagram’s twin goes into a bar and orders: A Seagram’s gin and tonic (no stirrer), a wheat beer, and a mimosa. 2/2
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@Anthony_Etherin This one was so good it inspired us to get our game on and reply in kind… In Great Britain, an anagram walks into a pub and orders up: A big pint, top row gins, dark ales, a banana rum…and rat urine? 1/2
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Anthony Etherin
Anthony Etherin@Anthony_Etherin·
An anagram walks into a pub and orders: top row gins, dark ales, and a banana rum. #anagram
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@aaaronson Greenlandic: "Hold my qiviaq. Here 'qeqertaqjuq' means it is a large house'."
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Adam Aaronson
Adam Aaronson@aaaronson·
Words with the most occurrences of each letter
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@rocknrollofall Sheeran would have done well in an early 70s soft rock tribute band called Ginger Bread.
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Rock'n Roll of All
Rock'n Roll of All@rocknrollofall·
When the teacher puts all the smart kids in one group to create the rock song of the year.
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Issa Guadagnigga
Issa Guadagnigga@Foutanienne·
(have we ever had a true gay celebrity IT couple ?)
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Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay·
@kendallbaker Gen X here but just to keep up your Boomer thing: when I was a kid, ‘don’t believe everything you read on line’ meant at the supermarket, waiting to pay.
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Kendall Baker
Kendall Baker@kendallbaker·
Been thinking about this a lot lately. All of us born in the 80s and 90s are part of a “bridge” between the old world and the new in a way that others just aren’t. Everybody experiences nostalgia, but because we grew with the internet in the way we did, it hits harder.
Kendall Baker@kendallbaker

It’s crazy how millennials are the only generation that can see through disinformation online. Maybe it’s because we were raised offline but grew with the internet. Meanwhile, the digital world is still foreign to boomers. And it’s all Gen Z has ever known, so they’re cooked.

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Justin Farkas
Justin Farkas@farkasaurus·
Holy crap Drake Maye is the best athlete I've ever seen. Playing up a league and still the best in the league
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