That’s the second time tonight I’ve seen the word “generational” used in a way that is not clear to me. First “generational player” and now “generational ship”. Meaning: best of his/our generation? Defining a generation? I can only remember the word being used before in contexts like “generational trauma”, and this does not seem to have the same meaning.

Is this new or have I been living under a rock? (I do pretty much live under a rock.) Where is it from? Is it a sports thing?

Merriam-Webster is not helping, but I didn’t expect it to.

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RBI Report: ATM Usage Declines as India Embraces Digital Payments

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Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?

On the one hand, the received opinion that the long dash is a product of generative AI that basically didn’t exist in years past is a worrying sign about public literacy: Celebrated poets and philosophers from Emily Dickinson to Friedrich Nietzsche have been known to flaunt them in expressive ways, and many people serious about the craft of writing find them useful. Having no basic familiarity with it as a mark on the page is perhaps a measure of one’s limited reading. (That said, famed grammarian and lexicographer Bryan Garner has called it “perhaps the most underused punctuation mark in American writing,” so that could be a factor.)

Well, I use em dashes — proper ones, that is — when I feel like being fancy, but I wonder if their underuse is at least partly because there’s no such symbol on the keyboard and people just type them up as double hyphens?

Follow me down a Cornish rabbit hole.

In the series I’m currently reading, we are in 19th-century Cornwall. One of the characters uses Cornish words in her normal speech. Great characterization! And I freely admit that I’ve looked up more than one term, which makes me happy. (I love bumping into unfamiliar words and learning about them. That’s why I don’t fret if a client uses an uncommon term. Send the readers to the dictionary once…

Follow me down a Cornish rabbit hole.

COUTUME | Théâtre : des spectateurs jadis chargés de lancer les applaudissements ➽ http://bit.ly/Claque-Theatre

Auteurs et comédiens au XVIIIe siècle, puis directeurs de théâtre au siècle suivant, jugeant que le public n'applaudissait ni assez fréquemment, ni assez bruyamment, imaginèrent d'introduire dans nos salles de spectacle un petit bataillon d'applaudisseurs spéciaux surnommés « battoirs » puis « claqueurs », chargés d'exciter, d'échauffer l'enthousiasme du public, et au besoin de le remplacer par le leur, cet usage, s'institutionnalisant bientôt sous le nom de « claque », étant officiellement supprimé en 1902

Smartphones: A lifeline or a dangerous distraction? • FRANCE 24 English

Smartphones: A lifeline or a dangerous distraction? • FRANCE 24 English

TRADITION | Chandeleur : entre coutumes et croyances ➽ http://bit.ly/Chandeleur-Fete

La fête de la Chandeleur, qui aujourd’hui n’est plus chômée en France, a pour objet de rappeler la présentation, au Temple, de l’enfant Jésus né quarante jours plus tôt la nuit de Noël, et la purification de la Sainte-Vierge. Son nom lui vient des cierges bénits qu’on y portait en procession à l’église

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% of generative AI users ages 14-22 who have used it for the following reasons

Btw: I tag stuff I want to keep as Bookmark and say the same as the words of the rb, so yeah.

There’s an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris’ or Harris’s?

Well I’m in the apostrophe + s camp because of Strunk & White (it’s the first rule in the book, in fact), which agrees with The New York Times and The Washington Post, but AP’s own house style goes the other way. Whatever. Fight on, people.

Retinol for Skin: Benefits, Usage, and Expert Tips

Retinol for Skin: Benefits, Usage, and Expert Tips

43 Embarrassing Grammar Mistakes Even Smart People Make

hey hey, fic writers… the title of this article is really shitty and the blurb wrongly associates “educated” with “smart,” BUT! these are some grammar/usage foibles and misstated common sayings that I see all the time. The one that drives me up the wall that’s missing from here: the phrase is ‘cut and dried,’ not 'cut and dry.’

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