American things

post office, public library, children's supply store in every town i've ever known

I remember growing up in Akron and seeing the massive amounts of people who would go to Founder's Day (I think it was usually held at Akron U/U of Akron?) It was always impressive to me that so many people would show up and have something in common so strong that was not religious, not political, but intensely personal. I always sort of envied the community aspect even if the program itself didn't appeal to me on a number of levels.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera)

kbs _is_ a pretty good beer

? idgi

There’s a brewer called founders & that is one of their beers

ahhh right
i just looked it up and it is based in michigan -- another american thing!

[streaming the american soccerball coverage]

"And then stayed tuned for Spain vs Portugal... The Iberian Peninsula Derby!"

ha

murica

(we have fun with the garbage disposal these days, every bit of discarded food is a Jabba foot soldier or Boba Fett.)

"Lede". WTF?

Like Morbius' bugaboos "callback" and "showrunner", it's industry jargon that has leaked into the popular consciousness

afaik "lede", "hed", and "dek" are all spelled that way (i.e., wrong) so if they are left in copy during the editing process, it'll be easy for a copyeditor to spot and remove them

fixt.

I never realised it was just a misspelling of "lead" that had become a standard, I've only ever seen it "buried the lede" and I guess thought it was an archaic term that only stuck around in that phrase

Never seen it before today, on ILX... twice!

sked

reax

stix nix hick pix

"Lede". WTF?

i'm the one that used it, sorry! i've seen plenty of journos use it, informally. same with "graf".

No need (nede?) for apologies, it was also in a tweet someone posted. An American tweet.

as an astute observer of american journalism, i feel the need to Both Sides the shit out of this

So how did we come to spell it lede?

Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s, we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008. For much of that time, it was mostly kept under wraps as in-house newsroom jargon.

Once, Al Marlens, the assistant managing editor, told one of the cleaning men to walk up to me and ask to see my lede, “not lead,” a newsie slang for the first sentence of a story.
—Myron S. Waldman, Forgive Us Our Press Passes, 1991

Spelling the word as lede helped copyeditors, typesetters, and others in the business distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ), which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine). Since both uses were likely to come up frequently in a newspaper office, there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly.

William Safire, who knew a thing or two about newsrooms, wrote in his New York Times "On Language" column in 1990, "Wouldn't it be easier if the noun for the metal were spelled the way it sounded (led, to rhyme with dead) and the noun for the beginning of a newspaper story were spelled the way it is pronounced (lede, or leed, to rhyme with deed)?"

Others have been less than willing to embrace the new spelling. At The Awl, founder Choire Sicha tore out at those who use lede like it's an affectation:

You schmucks who use ridiculous journo-terms make me crazy! Finally, someone is willing to speak out against the use of “lede” in public. Because, ha ha, sucka, there’s no reason for it! (Plus, MOST OF YOU ARE JUST BLOGGERS.)
—Choire Sicha, The Awl, 19 Sept. 2011

Or twete? (xp)

whoops, forgot the link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead

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sweet corn on the cob

public bathroom cubicles the size of a studio apartment

The Americans with Disabilities Act

disturbingly large gaps in cubicle doors

The Americans with Disabilities Act

nah, I mean things like a bar's toilet being one room with a toilet and a urinal and a sink, and for some reason a dresser, and also enough room for a bed, not an accessible cubicle or two within a series of cubicles, which is not an American thing

Have a Nice Day

No concept of the greater good. America’s slogan should be ‘Me and Mine’

Zero shame

Fire at will

We are number despite all evidence to the contrary.

Popularity in school Is based solely off n parents income

No concept of the greater good.

This is a somewhat recent development and it certainly is not universal. The idea of public libraries originated in the USA. Public parks, public highways, public water works, public fire departments, public schools, public lands, and civil service all were flourishing ideas in the USA before about 1975.

Backhanded insults

^ I think the French preempted the US on that one.

Conference call with American colleague: "over here, in the States, we have a thing we call... The Sniff Test."

Cujo-ing dogs? An American tourist was talking to me in the pub while I tried to do the crossword. He started talking about is dog, and said that he used to offer it something 'from the last president, I don't talk politics in public, but you know who I mean, and something from the new president. He's very friendly, but he doesn't like black people!'. I don't understand the mechanics of the cujo-isation, but I just ignored him from then on.

The sniff test is a rite of passage all men around the world take part in

https://www.presidentschoice.ca/content/dam/lclonline/images/products/PC%20Extra%20Meaty%20Dog%20Food%20-%20Beef%20Dinner%20Cuts%20in%20Gravy%20EN%202668772.jpeg.thumb.420.420.margin.png

President's Choice is actually a Canadian brand of dog food, I'd have told him.

disturbingly large gaps in cubicle doors

― Number None, Thursday, 19 July 2018 07:24 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so fucking weird, i do not understand this at all

seriously why even hang a door there when the gap is so big you're basically guaranteed an audience

Ranch might be the most american word there is.

Like so many concepts and objects associated with the western USA, the ranchero was borrowed from Mexico.

Do you mean doors or "doorways"?

Like, none of these would ever have had doors in the first place.

https://i.imgur.com/8C2eC7p.jpg

lmao

bathroom cubicles i think they mean

*unveils list of american things* so we call those bathroom stalls

Get it right

Sicka “europeans”

Also i never even close the door if I’m inside a stall

Foul