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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by William
William, are you saying you are only now learning the word "quoth"?
No. I had known of the word 'quoth' before.
I did learn things about its origin and use that I did not know before and also that 'cw' was used in Anglo-Saxon for the sound for which we use 'qu' today.
William
Re: The word 'quoth'
What about it?
There comes a point where trivia is trivia.
Some people enjoy picking up bits of knowledge here and there and some people do not.
There is a saying "Never grumble away your opportunities".
I have found that learning things is often useful many years later in some situation, as well as there being the satisfaction of learning something.
William
The pictures have survived, not ended up in landfill or incinerated.
William
Have you seen the MOBA website?
Actually, some of the pictures are very interesting.
Who gave the paintings the titles?
Would they be regraded diiferently if they had different titles?
For example,
what if
After the Apocalyse
had the title
Dawn Redwoods in winter
?
Also, are some of them attempts by people to convey an idea, yet the physical realization of the idea is not right, but nevertheless the idea is there?
For example,
Two Trees in Love
William
Quite by chance I noticed this video on the BBC iplayer channel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b … t-and-loss
First of a two-part series available for three months.
From 2015.
I have only watched a small part thus far.
Very amazing.
It starts with the records of who got what in the 1830s.
William
William wrote:Rather poignant, the bit about the fenster.
Do you mean the following line?
Jetzt sehen fremde Menschen aus den Fenstern
Yes.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/erich-na … yrics.html
William
A lovely song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVJDKlhM78U
I found the lyrics online and I got a translation.
Rather poignant, the bit about the fenster.
William
What wording would you suggest such that the effect that you perceive is not present?
William
But you have missed out the preposition "to" before the word "people" so you are treating the word "people" as in the nominative case, whereas the word "to" in the original text puts it in the dative case.
William
So can we have an Art category please?
Not "the arts", just Art please.
My recent post
Sculpture in the city
could be moved there as could some other threads.
William
An interesting thing about the phasing out of non-barcoded stamps (except for special issue stamps other than Christmas stamps) is that everyday stamps and Christmas stamps are to be barcoded, and so 2022 will likely have a mix of the new barcoded stamps and the obsolescent non-barcoded stamps. Yet all of the 2022 Christmas stamps will be barcoded, so that is likely to be when consumers are likely to experience barcoded stamps a lot. So the phasing out of non-barcoded everyday stamps being at the end of January 2023 is an elegant timing.
William
Regarding the Royal Mail app that is being advertised.
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcode-stamps/videos
I don't usually use a smartphone or a tablet computer, but I have a basic smartphone, an IMO Q2 smartphone and a 7 inch Archos tablet, both of which use Android, and I got the smartphone to experience using the smartphone and the Archos tablet as a back up for ordering grocery and to learn about tablets.
So to have a go at trying to get the Royal Mail app working I first need to charge the batteries on the devices and to relearn how to use them.
Has anyone tried downloading the Royal Mail app please?
If so, did you get it working?
If so, can the Shaun the Sheep video be accessed by using the computer screen image of one of the four new barcoded stamps or does one need to use a real postage stamp to get it to work?
William
There have been reports that food prices are about to rise by 5%.
This has been reported as that the cost of a person's weekly shop will rise by 5%.
Yet does that follow?
It seems to me quite possible that many people will try to reduce the effect.
For example, by not getting some luxuries and choosing supermarket own label products rather than branded products.
What effect will that have?
For example, what if most of the people who might now buy a bunch of flowers when thet get their shopping decide that due to the increasing cost of food that they will not buy the flowers?
Will it last?
A filling station owner where I used to get petrol back in the 1980s told me, a while after a time when petrol prices went up dramatically, that at first lots of people bought less petrol, just what was needed to get to work, cutting out going on leisure trips at the weekend, but that after a month or so, they had missed going out so went back to buying as much petrol as before.
One thing that has emerged is that the rising cost of gas and electricity, so often expressed as how it affects a person's gas and electricity bill, will also affect businesses, not only in production but also in heating supermarkets and in powering in-store refrigerators.
William
I have been in tuition.
I had a feeling about it.
William
William wrote:Looking at
https://shop.royalmail.com/barcoded-nvis-stamp-set
is that a type 29 barcode or a new format?
William
It fits the spec for Type 29 (16 x 48 modules). What makes you wonder whether it might be a new format?
I don't quite know, a combination of dfferences of size, orientation, colour, display size on the computer screen, having seen a black and white one printed on an envelope, and not knowing at the time that it is based on an ISO standard and not some Royal Mail proprietary format, and an underlying cautious approach such that I do not say "oh oh oh they must be the same".
William
I have found the following.
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso … ed-2:v1:en
Only a part is available free but I mention the link in case it might be helpful.
I have not studied it yet.
William
I have found the following.
http://aisukltd.com/barcode-verificatio … -barcodes/
I have not read or understood it all yet, but I include the link as it may be that the barcode on the stamps is a particular application of a barcode type that is defined in an international standard.
Wlliam
Thank you.
Looking at
https://shop.royalmail.com/barcoded-nvis-stamp-set
is that a type 29 barcode or a new format?
William
Baa baa cartoon sheep
Please tell us what you know
Postage stamps with barcodes
Four new ones in a row
William
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