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browsing this website <ourdialects.uk/> all of the interesting english shit is in the north lmao

of course this is a University of Manchester product so there may be some bias there

(i’ve no problem with that)

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how dare “neverminding” be US regional

“yeah i went and got contacts so i wouldn't have to wear glasses; anyway, now i can start wearing these glasses”

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i think it's funny that they keep trying to make smart glasses happen because the people who wear glasses ALREADY WEAR GLASSES and the people who don't wear glasses DON’T WANT TO WEAR GLASSES

list of delicious foods (incomplete) 

• tamales

using IIFEs just to give these javascript files some sense of structure

i don’t ⁜like⁜ it but this is a situation where you just gotta bow to common practice

especially since i use a nonstandard 71‐char linelength

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begrudgingly adopting 2‐space javascript in deno since you can just set up your own config file and run `deno fmt` if you have different spacing requirements

anyway you should use ᚴ for S so you don’t look like a nazi

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it’s lice trjing tu write english lice this

that's not how we spell

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honestly i have zero idea where anglophonic rune fanatics get their alphabet like i’m not sure they even realize the english and north germanic traditions are… different

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why would you write english in runes using the bad S latter when you could write english in runes using the good S letter

i should not have to write this (but i do) [typescript] 

for (
const nodeType of /** @type {(typeof NODE_TYPE.SECTION|typeof NODE_TYPE.HEADING|typeof NODE_TYPE.BLOCK)[]} */(
[
NODE_TYPE.SECTION,
NODE_TYPE.HEADING,
NODE_TYPE.BLOCK,
]
)
) { /* … */ }

this is one of those “things which are allowed in JavaScript which an ordinary language never would have allowed” moments

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typescript didn’t seem to be able to handle my switch on false so here is what i’m doing instead

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