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OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

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What are your favorite food(s) celebrated by a special day in February? (Choose up to three)

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Beef Invictus said:
So was the court transcriber-dude. After writing "cheese" normally through the testimony, when it ended with "the governor did send and receive a Cheese" (or whatever) they fancied up the last "cheese"

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That’s pretty damn cool/nerdy that you’re doing this.
One would think they would have an official transcriber on staff. A paid position. Especially if they are backlogged to the 1700’s.
 
Lord Defect said:
That’s pretty damn cool/nerdy that you’re doing this.
One would think they would have an official transcriber on staff. A paid position. Especially if they are backlogged to the 1700’s.
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This is intern work. You transcribe the digital scans so that they are searchable. The problem is that modern interns weren't taught cursive lol
 
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PALE PWNR said:
I was taught cursive. I can still barely read that :DD
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Yeah the 1700s stuff is actually a trap because they had their own unique and different abbreviations, spellings, phrases, and without knowing them you could just stare at a word for an age and have no idea what you're actually seeing.

Less than a century (and a boost in pen technology) later and it's as easy to read as anything modern. Easier, even, since typing wasn't a thing and you had to have passable handwriting. Jump another half century into the typewriter age and I have become convinced nobody ever read anything they wrote to each other by hand.
 
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flyersnorth said:
I got 24/25. I feel old.
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23 of 25. Never owned a pager (though I carried one from time to time), and I only ever put a CD player into my car, not the other way around.

I still shoot film and I still use a record player. Technically I guess I still have my CD collection as well.
 
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