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@CowMan @Natasha_Jay @xgebi @benlockwood Fair enough, the ancestors of Symbian predated WinCE, but the company and brand name did not. However, that wasn't my point. I was pointing out that MS was pitching its OS for something like 15 years before iOS and Android were released. MS had their chance, and they did a terrible job. Then, they killed Nokia to try to get back in the game.

@rjblaskiewicz Thank you. Your original statement was a little terse, so I had difficulty figuring out exactly how the student tripped your alarm. When I was in high school, our teacher used to read Cliff's Notes and deliberately ask questions that weren't in it to catch students who hadn't done the reading

@lexiconista@mastodon.ie Yes and no in Indo-European languages are actually a bit counter intuitive: Aren't you going to the store? No. This means "I'm not going," but most languages would give an answer of correct or incorrect to the statement, not a "no" to a negative question. This is incredibly confusing to non-native speakers

@dbellingradt Is it the jester who is laughing or his audience?

@rjblaskiewicz "I caught one when it confidently made up a quote in an article I know better than anything I've ever written myself." This statement requires clarification and much more detail (if those aren't the same thing).

@rhoot @acesabe @keyboards Yeah, Japanese keyboard was my first thought when I looked at it, too.

@Natasha_Jay @xgebi @benlockwood MS was doing mobile devices before anybody else. WinCE predated Symbian, and was probably the reason there were no "smart" devices a decade earlier than their appearance. Their "innovation" was always garbage ... Oh wait... The same as Copilot...

@xgebi @benlockwood When was that? Before BillG was born? Wasn't it evil as soon as he dreamt it into existence?

@accentedcinema@masto.ai Your mother is surprisingly young!

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @lexiconista@mastodon.ie "na also works more like !(expression) in C than a no." "No" and "not" are two entirely different things, even if they are both pronounced "no" in Spanish and other Latin languages