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In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing. And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say “raise the carriage shafts” “raise it” or "trim it."When they should say, “Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!” they say, “Torches! Let’s have some light!” Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor “the Hall of the Imperial Lecture,” they shorten it to “the Lecture Hal”, a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained.
It’s literally like language is a constantly changing thing.
Thank you very much.
I also started using Alexandrite, thanks to that post!
Good to know. Thanks for the insight!
I use the middle mouse button a lot, it’s just that I’m not used to a site not working ‘like it should’ (which is just my preference, I know). I mean, if Lemmy is a bulletin board or aggregate, I’m sort of expecting a certain type of behavior.
Maybe it’s because my middle mouse button is wonky, sometimes it scrolls when I try to click. I just don’t like it.
But the main reason I ask is that I don’t get what makes some pages behave different; and what if I’d like to be able to make it act just the way I want? It’s just one of those things.
I don’t know how, but it does.
See, I had a feeling I didn’t know how it worked. Thanks for the pointers!
It’s a bit ironic that I’ve seen this exact same post about three times already. Apparently you’re the only one posting stuff.
Or maybe I don’t know how Lemmy works.
How does that video only have 15 likes?
I think every word ever started out as something that was nonsense to everyone, except the first two people who used that word.