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Aargh! I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. > Jet black/Jet Blue ... catnap/dognap My favorite example

by lisper 1y ago

Aargh! I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. > Jet black/Jet Blue ... catnap/dognap My favorite examples are how prepositions can change the meanings of idioms. For example, to be "down for" something and "down with" something mean the same thing, but to be "down on" something means the opposite. (And going down to X means something very, very different from going down on X. That last example is also interesting from a geeky HN point of view because the preposition imposes a type constraint on the binding of X, which is why I had to use "X" instead of "something" :-)

robinhouston 1y ago
> I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. That's much less true than it used to be! I don't know what device you're using, but on my iPhone I can seamlessly copy the text from that image.
- lisper 1y ago
  I'm using Firefox on a Mac.
  - layer8 1y ago
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/text-recognition https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/text-recognition Doesn’t this work?
    - lisper 1y ago
      Not for me. No idea why. Maybe this doesn't play well with NoScript or AdBlock.
      - layer8 1y ago
        There’s also TextSniper. I’m not a Mac user; Microsoft PowerToys provide that feature on Windows.
bee_rider 1y ago
Down for lunch? Down with lunch! (Breakfast food is yummier).
kps 1y ago
> I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. Yes. In this case the text is in the ALT tag, which would help if browsers exposed it.
teach 1y ago
And "down for" something is very nearly synonymous with "up for" something. (: