Tag: Finnish

• October 27, 2026Podcast Episodes

  #201: The PHPocalypse, Typos for AI, and Terminology Flippity-Gloops

  A major PHP security vulnerability gives Ian and Michael a brief glimpse of internet apocalypse, before the conversation moves on to the curious fact that we’re much less fussy about typos when talking to AI than when writing to other people. From spellcheckers and multilingual keyboards, they wander into Finnish dialects, pidgins, corporate jargon, and the curious ways names and terminology evolve. (This description was written with the help of AI)

• February 25, 2025Podcast Episodes

  #131: Pronunciation Oddities

  You write hiccup, I write hiccough? Ian and Michael discuss the joys of learning to pronounce and spell English. Plus, has the use of "gotten" as a past participle gotten out of hand?