I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    With voice to text becoming more common homonyms are going to become the de facto standard. All of the there there and their confusion, will be too too much, not to mention it’s it’s and it’s…

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      You forgot “its”.

      Should I add “people loudly using voice to text to SMS in public places” to my list of annoyances?

      E: you conveniently fell into my second paragraph. Maybe we could improve voice to text contextual translation so that homonyms don’t happen so often rather than yet another “can’t be bothered to fix it” excuse.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      All the voice2 text I’ve used gets these all right, by context. Better than many people.

      • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I was going to say, these voice to text software are mini LLMs that should know which version goes where.