[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Read the last part of my comment again. I didn't miss it. If two speakers agree on a new word and its meaning to the point it becomes adopted by a wider population of speakers, guess what, it becomes a standard word. By how you're describing it, dictionaries are the progenitors of language. You have that backwards. Dictionaries are records of the language and what words are being used.

The only languages that do not behave this way are dead languages.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

15*6=90 so I was fairly conservative on my estimate... Which further proves my point that the difference between 30 students total is vastly different than 180 total if we wanted to hit the other end of that average

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The way you wrote it makes it seem like you meant in total, not per period was my point. The total number is likely closer to 100 a school year which is vastly different to 15 total.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

15-25 kids.....

Like, per period? Cause that numbers low for public schooling

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You're thinking of codpieces.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The suggestions were just that. All it takes is speakers agreeing with a word for the use and to use it to the point where it becomes the standard.

No different than how gruntled has reentered the English language after being lost. It also changed meaning upon return so there's that similarity as well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Eh, language is both fluid and made up. Patterns of sounds or squiggles that we generally agree have specific meaning

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I'm remote so either I trust the user or push commands. I know which I prefer

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Between the antics, it was too real

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

"please call so and so, they're having issues with their browser"

Call the user, they are out for the day. Leave message to call back

Either never hear back or the issue was not browser related

Either way, tell the original ticket creator to have the person having the issue call us if they want prompt service

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

That's how one becomes IT

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We have a running leader board for uptime. Servers don't count. That said, I've seen some people who think they actually are turning it off but the machine just enters sleep mode. I only trust

shutdown /r /t 0

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