This is pretty much a living folk choral tradition. Maybe a bit influenced by classical church choral singing, but definitively its own thing in both vocal style and arrangement style.
In our Alpine region there is a long tradition of male choruses singing folk songs about mountain life and tales through rich harmonizations of pieces.
An example from coro SAT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZyZggh3SQ
Yeah excellent point. When presenting numbers for reading/interpretation then talking in terms of cubes with a certain side length has to be the easiest to interpret. Its important to be specific about the units and not say "5 metres cubed" because that will just lead to confusion with m^3 (already confusing to be fair!).
An alternative is using "known" points of reference like Olympic swimming pools, the Sistine Chapel etc (similar to "an area the size of Belgium"). But that risks getting absurd.
>How is it different from the second bullet point?
How "cloning the repo on a different folder on the same machine just to work on a bug fix" is different from the main way Git is supposed to be used (creating a new branch for the bug fix and working there, then checking out your feature branch again)?
In that it doesn't make sense.
They might as well go full 1980s style "codebase_1/ codebase_2/ codebase_3/ codebase_3.bak/" and so on copies, and skip code management altogether...
I'm not sure anyone is claiming Seinfeld invented the words but he presented them in newly humorous contexts that become widely used.
Shrinkage became a word used in a comical attempt to quash rumours of small penis size as well as to describe what happens when men swim in cold water. In the time when Seinfeld was popular then the word shrinkage used in a certain way would have been understood in these contexts and wouldn't have resulted in a HN-style overly literal interpretation and the question "what shrunk?". (speaking of overly-literal interpretations I feel the need to clarify that i'm referring to people who were vaguely up to date with popular culture).
Regifting isn't a literal description of giving a gift you received to another person. After Seinfeld's use it became a humorous euphemism for cheapness and tactlessness.
Seinfeld himself said he made up the words - I copied from the actual article.
From all I have seen in this thread, these words are being used in the literal context for which they were already defined - and they are already humorous without the need to imply it.
EDIT: you can downvote all you like, doesnt change the fact that he didnt actually make up the words or even their usage...
I've seen this as an LPT or similar posted on Reddit. I think it helped save a life in the New Year pre-pandemic.
I'd stopped at a picnic location near a rocky Atlantic (European) coastline with my partner. It was a picturesque location but the sea was inhospitable - huge swell and waves that just looked violent. We'd sat down at a bench with a view of the sea and set out our lunch. At some point after that I noticed two people in the sea, maybe 30-50m out. They were bobbing about in the swell. Initially I was confused. It didn't look right but my mind tried to make explanations - maybe the locals just swim out there in crazy conditions? After some time it became clear that they were in trouble, I guess that's when the "drowning doesn't look like drowning" advice came to me. Luckily the beach (tiny strip of sand between cliffs) had a well-labelled sign with an emergency number that I called and managed to ask for an English speaker and described the situation.
Whilst waiting for the response one of the people in the water started trying to tow the other towards shore but made no progress. They kept disappearing behind large waves and at some point I could only pick out one of them, then I saw a pair of shoes or sandals floating then I saw the other person face down in the water, occasionally visible behind the swell. There was some dithering where a local official came to the beach to check out the report but eventually we heard helicopters and one person was rescued and the body of the other recovered.
It turned out there was a group of three tourists, two sons (teenage/early 20s) and their dad. A local had taken them to a fishing spot - a flat rock that spanned out towards the sea close to water level. A large wave had washed the dad and one of his sons out to sea. The dad died. I witnessed the other son - who hadn't been washed out to sea - being interviewed by police, as utterly distraught as i've ever seen a person, understandably.
Looking back on it I should have realised the severity of the situation sooner but perhaps without this advice I would have left it too late and neither would have made it.
It's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolute textbook example of tedious internet pedantry.
Or someone who has to spend too much time around navy people who obsess about these definitions, people for whom small errors can lead to poorly loaded holds or vessels hitting rocks because they didn't know their draft from their hull depth.
I live in a recreation state, and to provide some numbers there are well over three times as many registered boats in my home state than there are naval O-6 rank ship captains. Just in one state.
Admittedly "beaching" a nuclear air craft carrier is more important to the USA than a local bubba beaching his fish trawler on a sandbar; but to bubba as an individual, its more important not to beach his fishing boat as avoidance of beaching his fishing boat is actionable for bubba, whereas watching TV reports of a naval accident are not.
