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

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

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  • jasper@dystopianpresent.clubJ jasper@dystopianpresent.club

    @jblake @cabel dip your naan bread in it!

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

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    • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

      i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

      folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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      @cabel both redundant and unnecessary

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      • tal@mastodon.socialT tal@mastodon.social

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

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

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        • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

          i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

          folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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          @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”

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          • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

            i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

            folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

            jsit@social.coopJ This user is from outside of this forum
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            @cabel I guess you could have a queue without a line? Like in a take-a-number system at a deli?

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            • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

              i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

              folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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

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              • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

                i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

                folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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                @cabel
                You are correctly right.

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                • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

                  i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

                  folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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                  @cabel we ride at dawn

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                  • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

                    i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

                    folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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                    @cabel
                    Sahara Desert

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                    • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

                      i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

                      folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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                      @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.

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                      • cabel@social.panic.comC cabel@social.panic.com

                        i know language shifts over time but i am being tormented by a new discovery: "queue line". as in, "here's a look at the queue line for the ride".

                        folks, it's either a queue, or a line, right? "queue line" is super redundant, right? help me out here —👴🏻

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                        @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.

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                        • jasper@dystopianpresent.clubJ jasper@dystopianpresent.club

                          @cabel is the queue line for the ATM machine? Don't forget your PIN number.

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                          @jasper @cabel is the ATM wireless or does it have a NIC card?

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