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Mike Pope

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Tech writing & editing (update: now retired), language & words, occasional cats. Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 7h

Happy Caturday

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 7d

Happy Caturday

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 9d

Just to be clear, you are Utahraptor in this comic, right? ;)

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 9d

I wrote a haiku to commemorate the occasion:

Harold cyning wæs
wiþ Willelm eorle gefeaht
Adieu Anglisc-spræc

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 11d

Now I'm wondering if there are other non-passive "get" + participle (?) constructions like this.

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 11d

this is wonderful. I've heard the Peer Gynt Suite about one (1) million times but never a vocal performance.

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 11d

I sure do not recall hearing "an hotel"—? Maybe I hang out in the wrong circles.

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 12d

😯

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 13d

"It's a good start"

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 13d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 13d

No fee, I'm afraid.

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 14d

Happy Caturday

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 15d

... and Kissinger actually won

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 21d

Happy Caturday

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 22d

Words of wisdom today about language learning from @colingorrie.bsky.social

"[grammatical] paradigms are like vitamins. They can be good for you, but don't confuse them with actual food."

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 24d

It makes sense if you think about who's bribing, I mean contributing to, the party in power.

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 25d

I might could imagine saying this in the expression "store-boughten"

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 26d

A scary MS Word thing happened today: the Normal template disappeared. I tried to run a macro, but gah, no macros. 😶

BACK UP YOUR NORMAL.DOTM FILE REGULARLY

I use a script+scheduled task to automatically back up (details below), so I was able to recover, yay.

www.mikepope.com/blog/Display...

Automatically backing up the Normal.dotm file - mike's web log

www.mikepope.com

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 28d

Happy Caturday

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · 29d

My problem was always with finding the right photos of cats

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 22

I'm always tickled to see a word that got into Latin from Germanic

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Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 20

Happy Caturday, editing edition

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 13

Happy Caturday

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 8

Is this the same SCOTUS whose chief justice said "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race"?

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 6

I'm a little embarrassed at how long it took for me to get this. But it's great :)

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 6

Happy Caturday

Mike Pope @mikepope.com · Sep 5

I'll note that our style guide at work frowned on the use of names like "camel case" and "snake case" in official docs.

developers.google.com/style/capita...

Capitalization | Google developer documentation style guide | Google for Developers

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