For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
The phrase “design language” is overstated and pretentious. Anywhere design language is used the word design, by itself works. Design encompasses all the elements that unite an object into a cohesive work.
The phrase design language started with internet articles needing to pad their word count.
(not a designer myself btw)
Isn’t design language mainly used to describe general things about how a design should work?
Take Material for example. Material itself is a design language, telling you how far apart certain click targets should be, how big text should be, stuff like that, to make a generally useable UI. It doesn’t tell you what shape or what colour your button should be, that’s up to the implementation, like Material UI, to decide, which is what I would call the general design.
“Material is a design, telling you how far apart certain click targets should be.”
See, the sentence works without “language”. Its addition makes it overstated and pretentious.
If you follow a design, you are following the guidelines of how something should look.
Sure the sentence works, but now you’ve lost the distinction between more of an abstract concept and a concrete implementation. It wouldn’t be wrong to call both material and mui a design, but in conversation it can just be useful to have a little more distinction between the two without having to go into the details explaining it.
(also damn i should have chosen a better example than material, their naming is pretty confusing)
No, design and design language are two different things. A design language is a set of design rules that define a common look and feel across a product line. There’s usually a manual put together by a designer and their team defining what these commonalities are.
Look up “Apple Snow White design language“ for example.
But it’s a design for designs - it tells you how to design your own UIs, it doesn’t dictate what for example a calculator app should look like. You can follow Material Design and still end up with a terrible UI design.
Surely that’s enough for some distinction, right?
They’re trying to solve one of the hardest problems in Computer Science: Naming things.
What do you call the framework, or design system—that thing that’s not quite a glossary of the terms—we’re going to use to describe the meta conversations around design?
“Design language” encompasses the colors, spacing, tokens, typography ramps, general rules, and all the other fiddly bits to unify on so that the more interesting parts of design and user experience can happen.
Naming things is hard :/
My pedantic hill to die on is the word “jealous”. For example:
“I’m going on vacation!” “Ugh, I’m so jealous!”
No, that’s envy. Jealousy is a weird way of behaving about things you already have, it’s not wishing you had what someone else does! Weirdly, explaining this does not cause people to use the correct word. At this point the battle is probably lost and the meaning has officially shifted.
The phrase “I could care less” makes more sense than “I couldn’t care less.” They’re both idioms and therefore are both considered correct linguistically speaking.
But “I could care less” indicates you would prefer to not have to care about a subject so is expressing that you’d prefer to stop talking about it.
“I couldn’t care less” doesn’t indicate the current level of caring so you might say “there isn’t anything in the world that will make me stop caring about my children; I couldn’t care less about my children.” Without the idiom those aren’t contradictory. It’s only because of the idiom there’s an assumption the reason the person can’t care less is because they don’t care at all. But nothing about the phrase indicates this.
The level of concern for something with the phrase “I could care less” is indicated by context and the phrase indicates whatever someone may have assumed about one’s concern from the context is actually more than the person actual concern for it.
But people will often say “I couldn’t care less” is better than “I could care less”. They’re wrong and I could care less about their wrong opinions on idioms.
✅ “What it looks like”
✅ “How it looks”
🚫 “How it looks like”
It’s pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.
It’s “an historical,” not “a historical.” I don’t care if that’s outdated, that’s proper.
It’s a water heater, not a hot water heater, why would anyone want to heat water that’s already hot?
Dampening
And
Damping
One is literally making things wet.
One is reducing movement or oscillations in something.
And so many people get it wrong, then right, then wrong in the same damn paragraph. My god.
I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.
The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.
Stoplights at a junction should be done in phases and not in straight on green and turn on green only if it’s clear.
If you have a 4 way junction then each way should green for you to go straight or turn off for a period of time.
Oxford comma
Slackware is still an important and useful distro.
It doesn’t make any assumptions about how you want to use your computer.
Do you want a system that’s more stable than Debian or as bleeding edge as Arch?
Do you want a minimal system that runs on an old 486 or a full-featured KDE desktop?
Do you want to compile from source, download tarballs from Github, install .deb packages, .rpm packages or FlatPaks?
Are you running a web server or a laptop?
Slackware don’t care. There’s no “Debian way”, no “partial upgrades are unsupported”, no “don’t mix in other repos”, no “don’t edit this file, it will be overwritten”. Do whatever the fuck you want, it’s your PC.Natural scrolling is wrong. Mouse, touchpad, doesn’t matter, it’s wrong.
Most people do not know the meaning of the word “Feminism/Feminist” and use it to describe crazy people on twitter…
The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.
Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.
