i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line".

[jmissig@hci.social]

@cabel bringing all the wins of CRLF to English

[thomastc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cabel It's a line for queueing, duh.

Or maybe it's a line where you can wait to have your hair braided?

[jmissig@hci.social]

@cabel see because “queue line” is perfectly compatible with *both* British English and American English. the problem has been solved!

[jblake@mastodon.social]

@cabel While waiting in the queue line, a chai tea hits different.

[zamnight@mastodon.social]

@cabel I usually only see this in the use of acronyms. That's nails on a chalkboard, right there.

[jasper@dystopianpresent.club]

@jblake @cabel dip your naan bread in it!

[timonus@mastodon.social]

@cabel it’s a queue of queues

[cykelero@mas.to]

@cabel no no, a queue line is a 2D array

[sarraceniawilds@sunny.garden]

@cabel like atm machine.

[tal@mastodon.social]

@jasper @jblake @cabel on your way up Torpen Hill

[tal@mastodon.social]

@cabel both redundant and unnecessary

[jasper@dystopianpresent.club]

@tal @jblake @cabel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo I was going to post that but I replied too much already

[hoemma@mastodon.social]

@cabel The other language shift that Americans have been confusing me in the last decade or two, is using “I” where it should be “me”.
As in: “She spoke with Cabel and I”

[jsit@social.coop]

@cabel I guess you could have a queue without a line? Like in a take-a-number system at a deli?

[saige@social.szp.lol]

@cabel@social.panic.com i’ve been at sfmm and knott’s for the past few days and we’ve only said line

[cynblogger@sfba.social]

@cabel
You are correctly right.

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@cabel we ride at dawn

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@cabel
Sahara Desert

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@cabel

"Queue line" sounds like an Americanism, designed for people who don't know what a queue is, and imagine they never stand in one.

Kinda like the script in the Great Escape, which has one person shout at the Nazi guards, about to shoot Steve McQueen's character for being over the wire: "Nicht schiessen!" Then it has another person shout in English, for the benefit of the German guards and the American audience, "Don't shoot!"

Here, the usage is more like, "Don't shoot schiessen!" Sad.

[ellie@ellieayla.net]

@cabel I might like this one actually. When the queue is a logical concept of a FIFO and a line is the shape it takes, traced out by people or stanchions.

Which likely isn't what was intended at all, so being grumpy is your duty as an elder.