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RIP Donald Triplett (1933–2023), who at the age of 5 became the first person to be given the newly-conceived diagnosis of autism. In the writings of Dr. Leo Kanner, the child psychiatrist who came up with the diagnosis, Mr. Triplett is referred to as "Case 1."

 The photo shows a photo of a bald, white, male looking person, not really looking into the camera.the person wears a white shirt and suspenders, and the background seems like an autumn landscape of trees without leaves.

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The photo shows a photo of a bald, white, male looking person, not really looking into the camera.the person wears a white shirt and suspenders, and the background seems like an autumn landscape of trees without leaves.

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the photo shows a photo of a bald, white, male looking person, not really looking into the camera.the person wears a white shirt and suspenders, and the background seems like an autumn landscape of trees without leaves.
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Thank you so much. I really struggle with image descriptions

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@veroalgoz
Keep in mind that "suspenders" has a different meaning for many English-speaking folks.

@actuallyautistic

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Yeah, those are BRACES.
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@AlisonW @ratcatcher @veroalgoz
[shaking my head] It's like you people don't even know how to speak English.
These are braces:

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Well so are {{{ and }}} ! As Led Zeppelin pointed out, "sometimes words have n>1 meanings". 🙂
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@ScottSoCal

Yes, those are ALSO braces.

And I absolutely refuse to follow up with a "these are suspenders" post 😁

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Spoilsport! 🤗
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@AlisonW @ratcatcher @ScottSoCal @veroalgoz cos then that could lead on to illustrations of very different understandings of the meaning of the word fanny 🤣

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I regularly watch Fanny Gibert (a French sport climber)
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@ratcatcher @ScottSoCal @AlisonW @veroalgoz OK, so I had to look that up...

Same difference as "rubber", and the Dutch/Flemish version of "poepen".

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Tradenames can also complicate matters. "Durex" in UK is a manufacturer / brand of condom. In Australia they make bricks for building houses. (Not same company)
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I think we should please remove the actuallyautistic tag from the language discussion, as it went completely off topic.

and while we are it, remove me, i am not interested in the language discussion.

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@ratcatcher @AlisonW @ScottSoCal @veroalgoz that would work, perhaps. Plus, you'd get an epicurean (?) treatment at the same time! Or your partner would get one, too...
@ratcatcher thanks. now, let's celebrate that languages are organic and living evolving things, shaped daily into new forms by all it's users, native and non native speakers alike..

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@veroalgoz @ratcatcher
They can change it, embiggen it, and make it perfectly cromulent, as long as they use an Oxford comma. That's where I draw the line.

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I've been wondering whether there are any decent self-hosted CPU-only AI tools that can help with tasks like that.

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Ah yes. A "router" ('route - er') is something that routes, but a "router" ('rowt - er') is a tool for woodworking.

Ymmv! 🙂

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