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Omar Mendiburu | short description | José Omar Mendiburu Cruz (24 April 1960 – 7 March 2025) was a Mexican professional footballer who played as forward. He played 13 seasons in the Mexican Primera División with Cruz Azul (where he won the 1979–80 and 1980-81 championships), Deportivo Neza, Oaxtepec, Tigres UANL, Puebla and Tampico Madero. He also represented Mexico at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. |
Omar Mendiburu | Early career | Early career
Mendiburu was born on 24 April 1960 in Colonia Guerrero, Mexico City. He started playing football in the Deportivo Plan Sexenal, a sports center in the Miguel Hidalgo borough. He joined the academy of Cruz Azul in 1972. He won the 1977–78 reserves championship and finished as the top scorer of the tournament with 27 goals. |
Omar Mendiburu | Club career | Club career
Mendiburu made his professional debut with Cruz Azul during the 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season. He won back-to-back championships with Cruz Azul in the 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons, playing a key role in the team’s attack. In 1981, he transferred to Deportivo Neza, where he played the next two seasons. In 1983, he joined Oaxtepec for the club’s final season, scoring the last goal in the team’s history on 12 May 1984 at the Estadio Olímpico de Oaxtepec against Leones Negros UdeG.
In 1984, he joined Tigres UANL, where he played until 1986. The next season he signed with Puebla, where he played 54 matches, scoring 13 goals and winning the 1987–88 Copa México. In 1988 he returned to Tigres UANL, and he played his last professional season in 1989–90 with Tampico Madero. |
Omar Mendiburu | International career | International career
Mendiburu was part of the Mexican squad that participated in the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship played in Japan. He started in two matches, against Algeria and Spain and played as a substitute against Japan. |
Omar Mendiburu | Death | Death
On 11 November 2024, Mendiburu was hospitalized in the General Hospital of Mexico and required blood donations. He died on 7 March 2025 in Mexico City, aged 64. |
Omar Mendiburu | Honours | Honours
Cruz Azul
Mexican Primera División: 1979–80, 1980–81
Puebla
Copa México: 1987–88 |
Omar Mendiburu | References | References
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This device is part of the Claw series and is designed to compete with other high-end gaming handhelds.The Claw A8 includes an 8-inch FHD+ 120Hz touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200, and it supports VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) for smooth gameplay.
It also features AMD Radeon Graphics with 16 RDNA3.5 Compute Units.The Claw A8 is available in white or lime green.It includes a 1TB M.2 SSD for fast loading times and has a 6-cell, 80Wh Li-Polymer battery.
The device supports Windows 11 Home and comes with two Thunderbolt USB-C ports, a microSD card reader, and 2W speakers. |
MSI Claw A8 | Claw 8 AI+ A2VM | Claw 8 AI+ A2VM
The MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM is a high-performance gaming handheld device designed for immersive gaming experiences. It features an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor, 32GB LPDDR5X-8533MHz memory, and a 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD Gen 4x4 storage. The device includes an 8-inch 120Hz Full HD IPS-Level (1920 x 1200) 100% sRGB touch screen display, making it suitable for smooth and vibrant gaming visuals.
The Claw 8 AI+ A2VM supports Windows 11 Home and comes equipped with Intel Arc Graphics 140V, providing strong graphics capabilities. It also includes Killer WiFi 7 BE1750 and Bluetooth 5.4 for reliable connectivity.
The device features Hall Effect Joysticks and Triggers, ensuring precise and responsive controls. It has two Thunderbolt 4 ports for external display connectivity and charging, and it supports a MicroSD card reader for additional storage.
The device weighs 795 grams and measures 299 x 126 x 24 mm, making it relatively portable for a gaming handheld |
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La Doble Visera | short description | La Doble Visera (,), officially known as Independiente Stadium (, ), was an association football stadium in Avellaneda, Argentina. It was the home of Independiente, before the club moved to the current Libertadores de América Stadium, located on the same site.
Inaugurated in 1928, it was built using concrete, becoming the first stadium in Argentina to employ this material and the second in the world after Harvard Stadium in the United States. It never had an official name, but was initially known colloquially as La Visera (The Visor), and, following renovations in 1961, as La Doble Visera (The Double Visor). The latter name referred to its two flat-roofed concrete stands, commonly referred to as viseras (visors)."Las viseras de cemento", history on Viejos Estadios (blogsite) |
La Doble Visera | History | History
Between 1906, when Independiente moved from Buenos Aires to Avellaneda Partido, and 1928, the team played its home matches at the Crucecita stadium. In 1925, the club's board attempted to purchase the land where that stadium stood, but the sale fell through. As a result, President Pedro Canaveri acquired a vacant, swampy plot located between the tracks of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and just two blocks from Racing’s Alsina and Colón Stadium. The new stadium was built using fireproof materials, following the 1923 fire that had partially destroyed the Crucecita stands, allegedly caused by a short circuit. Nevertheless, for a time, wooden stands from the old stadium were reused.
Built between 1926 and 1928, Independiente’s stadium was erected on swampy land known as the Pantano de Ohaco (Ohaco Swamp), which had to be filled in. Architect Federico Garófalo reportedly drew inspiration from Brazil’s Laranjeiras Stadium or the Gávea Racetrack. The project faced sabotage attempts by Avellaneda’s mayor, but with media support and resistance from club members, construction continued.
The stadium was inaugurated on 4 March 1928, in a friendly match between Independiente and Uruguayan club Peñarol,Independiente inaugura su estadio on El Gráfico, 4 Mar 2021 with Governor of Buenos Aires, Valentín Vergara, as the guest of honour. The first official match played there was on 29 April 1928, when Independiente and Sportivo Buenos Aires tied 0–0. The first international match held at Independiente was on 25 May 1928, when Scottish club Motherwell F.C. played v a Liga Rosarina combined during the British club tour of Argentina.South American Trip of Motherwell FC 1928 by Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF Other notable matches of the time include a 4–1 win over Spanish champion FC Barcelona.Barcelona: Cuando no eran los mejores on Clarín, 23 Dec 2015Primera gira on El Periódico, 15 Aug 2007
The Argentina national football team played a Copa Newton match at Independiente in August 1928, being this the first match of the team at the venue.Copa Newton - match details on the RSSSF while the first Avellaneda derby was held in September 1928. One year later, another British club touring Argentina, Chelsea, played v Independiente at the stadium, in June 1929.South American Trip of Chelsea FC 1929 on the RSSSF Other Europeans teams that played there were Italian clubs Torino and Bologna."Independiente", stadium history on Viejos Estadios (blogsite)
In 1930, the pitch was reoriented and new concrete stands increased capacity to 80,000. Lighting towers were added in 1938, and in 1960, a second roofed stand gave rise to the nickname La Doble Visera. Further upgrades included press facilities, irrigation, and lighting improvements.
Due to structural decay, the stadium was closed in 2006 after a masonry collapse. Sergio Agüero’s transfer to Atlético Madrid funded the new stadium project. The final match was on 8 December 2006, with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy defeating Independiente 2–1; demolition began in January 2007. Only the upper Herminio Sande stand was preserved for the new venue. |
La Doble Visera | Argentina matches | Argentina matches |
La Doble Visera | Football team | Football team
The Argentina national football team played several matches at Independiente stadium, mainly in the 1930s and 1940s, with the last match played there in 1961. Below is a list of those matches.Argentina national team archive by Héctor Pelayes on the RSSSF
thumb|Aerial view of the stadium during the Argentina v Uruguay match, 15 Aug 1935
Date Event Rival Res. Scorer/s 30 Aug 1928 Copa Newton 5 Feb 1933 Friendly 15 Aug 1934 Friendly 15 Aug 1935 Copa Mignaburu 9 Aug 1936 Copa Mignaburu 11 Nov 1937 Copa Lipton 18 Feb 1940 Copa Chevallier Boutell 17 Mar 1940 Copa Roca 27 Oct 1957 1958 WC qualifying 12 Oct 1961 Friendly |
La Doble Visera | References | References |
La Doble Visera | External links | External links
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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 May 4 | Truck painting art | Truck painting art
There are some truck images where they are painted in some pop culture patterns (like Peterbilt 359), seemingly related to historical American trucking culture. But finding reasonably large images of such painted trucks to discern and identify the paintings was tough for me - most appear only on scale models rather than actual trucks (like that Peterbilt as a Revell model). Are there any sources specifically dealing with such art paintings on trucks? And are those paintings based on actual trucks? Brandmeistertalk 10:43, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
By "identify", do you mean, "identify the original of which this is a copy"? I expect most to be original art work, not unlike typical graffiti murals. ​‑‑Lambiam 11:13, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I mean to identify what is actually depicted on them (which may include the original paintings). Brandmeistertalk 11:17, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I can only speak to the phenomenon in my locality. I only notice it when there’s a convoy of locally-owned trucks, often due to a funeral of one of their own. To pay their last respects, they use their work trucks in a procession of mourners, often heading to the gravesite or memorial. When this happens, and it is pretty rare, you get to see the unique art work they have used on their trucks. Rarely does it appear like the example you provide, but it does happen. In my area there is more of a focus on unique fonts and calligraphy intermeshed with some colors and graphics. One particular trucking company, however, took it to another level entirely, and hired multiple artists to paint huge murals on the sides of their trucks. To be honest, I had never seen anything like it before, and the artists were given carte blanche to do whatever they wanted on these giant box trucks as long as it included the company name and a landscape image depicting the product. Some of the work was truly amazing and I did manage to get some pics of a few trucks, but there were many I missed. One of the things I noticed was that out of the four or five artists they hired, only one was truly great, with the rest all variations on mid or below. What was cool is that this one artist made their signature style easy to identify with a kind of airbrush-like style and approach that incorporated Chicano art from the 1960s and 1970s into their work along with immersive, optical illusions and themes that made it look like the art was a real scene spilling out of the contents of the back. But to your point: some of the trucks in the funeral convoy I spoke about did resemble the Peterbilt 359, but these were all custom jobs traceable to local artists. Like Lambiam says above, it’s all original work. It might be a long shot, but you could try searching for Chicano art and trucking online, as there’s a huge culture of Mexican-American artists who specialize in trucking art. Viriditas (talk) 19:55, 8 May 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 May 4 | Did The Inca Kings exist? | Did The Inca Kings exist?
I was asking questions about Aztec and Inca History to a friend who studied anthropology and colonial history of Latin America, and he told me most Inca Emperors, except maybe the last one and Huascar and Atahualpa, were "probably not real". I don't know if his view is common or not, and I didn’t find anything on Wikipedia, so I'm asking here. Did the Inca Kings really exist? 80.187.85.122 (talk) 14:00, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
You could start by asking him to prove his assertion. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:08, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
It's so improbable that the Incan Empire, with its extensive irrigation system, didn't have a succession of rulers. If you look at the Sapa Inca article, there are only 13 emperors. There is a great deal of rather ordinary and believable detail about them, such as being the third son, setting up a school system, or being poisoned in a plot over succession. The only troubling aspect is that each of them was said to have ruled for nearly exactly 30 years. Perhaps there were some Chester A. Arthurs and William Henry Harrisons among them that were left out of the oral histories. Abductive (reasoning) 21:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Arthur had a rather normal-length presidency; it was his predecessor, Garfield, who is much more analogous to Harrison. Nyttend (talk) 02:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Garfield is remembered because he was assassinated. Abductive (reasoning) 06:08, 5 May 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 May 4 | Failing to understand Hitlerite Germany | Failing to understand Hitlerite Germany
In we read "Professor Brogan has remarked that to fail to understand Hitlerite Germany required not merely ignorance but will." I would be grateful to known when and where Brogan said that. Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Here is a trail of my fruitless search. In the same book (Public Opinion And The Last Peace), McCallum writes, "" It appears quite plausible to me that this derives from the same source as the "not merely ignorance but will" pronouncement. The statement has a footnote citing as source: The same work by Brogan is cited elsewhere in McCallum's book, and it is the only work by Brogan named there. It is indeed a source for the French reconstruction effort, but I failed to find some version of the "not merely ignorance but will" or "admiration ... forget" pronouncements anywhere in this work.
In an article on Lord Halifax, McCallum has mentioned the "not merely ignorance but will" pronouncement using a slightly different wording:
The verb forms (remarked, pointed out, said) leave open the possibility that the source is a speech delivered by Brogan. ​‑‑Lambiam 10:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Thank you (twice) for the above, I was going to look up Brogan on French reconstruction later, you have saved me the effort. As for my original question, I have found the answer. I found:
And to be deceived about Hitler’s Germany required more than ignorance, it required will. There was abundant evidence of the character of the leaders of the Third Reich, their aims, their ideals. Those aims and ideals were as odious and dangerous in theory as in practice. There was no ground for the illusion that Nazi Germany was evolving towards decency; it was getting worse and worse ; more and more like its own vision of itself the longer it lasted. People can believe anything, but the suspension of disbelief in the evident that marked so many commentators on Germany, so many visitors of eminence to Germany between 1933 and 1939, gives a new and more depressing extension to “anything”.
in . DuncanHill (talk) 12:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Hiding in plain sight at Denis William Brogan. 2A00:23D0:40A:C501:3012:1D64:4442:BE80 (talk) 13:13, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I added it to the article! DuncanHill (talk) 13:17, 5 May 2025 (UTC) |
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David Boxer | David Boxer (1946-2017) is a Jamaican artist and art historian. He made and curated a lot of work themed around topics such as death and slavery, focusing on how they impact Jamaican culture.
| David Boxer (1946-2017) is a Jamaican artist and art historian. He made and curated a lot of work themed around topics such as death and slavery, focusing on how they impact Jamaican culture. |
David Boxer | Biography | Biography |
David Boxer | Early Life and Education | Early Life and Education
David Boxer was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1946. His childhood was spent there, until he moved to the United States to begin his education at Cornell University, graduating with Bachelors in art history in 1969. Boxer would continue his education at Johns Hopkins University, receiving an M.A. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1975. After receiving his Ph.D., Boxer would return to Jamaica, where he would stay for the rest of his life. |
David Boxer | Career | Career
David Boxer was considered a leading scholar of art in the Caribbean. When he returned from the United States after finishing his education, Boxer became the director and curator for the recently opened National Gallery of Jamaica. Throughout his time with the gallery, he had well over 50 exhibitions. These exhibitions focused on aspects of Jamaican culture, like art being made "for art's sake", championing art that would be considered "intuitive art".
In addition to studying art history and curating exhibits for his museum, David Boxer created a lot of his own artworks. He took a lot of inspiration from the British painter Francis Bacon, whom Boxer wrote his dissertation on. Much of his work focused on themes of slavery and death. His works would be featured in multiple Biennials and collections in museums.
Some works made by Boxer include Diaspora, Chorus of souls postscript, Havana Postscript, which was featured in the Passage Installation, Still Life with Chrysanthemums, Still Life - Fugue, and Triptych Renaissance. Boxer also wrote several books related to art history.
Boxer stepped down as head of the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2013. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 71. |
David Boxer | References | References
https://rawvision.com/blogs/obituaries/news-david-boxer-1946-2017?srsltid=AfmBOoo6bNHZtUKzt2aF-7EEOCVZta3Q4ycyQhlhNL_eSTlxtfExd5wB
https://worldbank.emuseum.com/people/2178/david-boxer/objects
https://bfsa.jhu.edu/exhibit/boxer-david/
https://www.panamericanart.com/artists/40-david-boxer/
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2025 Birmingham Open | Infobox tennis event | The 2025 Birmingham Open (also known as the Lexus Birmingham Open for sponsorship reasons) is a women's tennis tournament to be played on outdoor grass courts. It will be the 43rd edition of the event, and a 2025 WTA 125 tournament (downgraded from WTA 250 status in previous years). It will take place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 2–8 June 2025. |
2025 Birmingham Open | Singles main draw entrants | Singles main draw entrants |
2025 Birmingham Open | Seeds | Seeds
Country Player Rank1 SeedMagdalena Fręch251Alycia Parks522Sonay Kartal533Kimberly Birrell634Alexandra Eala695Zeynep Sönmez766Ajla Tomljanović797Greet Minnen808
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2025 Birmingham Open | Other entrants | Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
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2025 Birmingham Open | Seeds | Seeds
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2025 Birmingham Open | Champions | Champions |
2025 Birmingham Open | Singles | Singles
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2025 Birmingham Open | References | References |
2025 Birmingham Open | External links | External links
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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 May 5 | Lalitpur and Uttar Pradesh | Lalitpur and Uttar Pradesh
Why is Lalitpur District part of Uttar Pradesh, and not part of Madhya Pradesh, which almost completely surrounds it? I know state boundaries were set to match linguistic borders, but their articles' infoboxes suggest that both states are predominately Hindi-speaking. Neither the district article nor Lalitpur, India explains this, and neither Uttar Pradesh nor Geography of Uttar Pradesh mentions Lalitpur. Nyttend (talk) 02:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Lalitpur was in the United Provinces (see United Provinces of Agra and Oudh and United Provinces (1937–1950)) before they were re-named Uttar Pradesh. Before that it was in North-Western Provinces and before that Agra Presidency. Presumably when the states were re-organised in 1956 there was no compelling reason to move it from a Hindi-speaking state of which it had been a part for many years, to another Hindi-speaking state. DuncanHill (talk) 11:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Yes, the savings in not having to redo signs & stationery etc is often thought to be the reason why the universal abbreviation "U.P." was able to remain "U.P." (Uttar Pradesh = "Central region"), despite not really being very central in any geographical sense. Johnbod (talk) 03:28, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
'Uttar' means 'north', 'Madhya' means 'middle' --Soman (talk) 22:26, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 May 5 | Who was Scrutator? | Who was Scrutator?
In we read "I think Scrutator in Truth has uttered the truest and therefore the most useful reflection on Lord Northcliffe's life." Begbie then describes Scrutator as "sane and responsible" and quotes him at length. So, who was Scrutator? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 23:11, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reviewing Newspapers.com (pay site), I see over 41,000 ocurrences of the word "Scrutator". It often seems to be used in reference to the process for choosing a new Pope, implying one who scrutinizes the process. However, I also ran across a 1940 obit that said a person known as "Scrutator", the pen name of a London Times editorialist, had died. His name was Herbert Sidebotham. Might this be it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:15, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
In William Cushing's Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (1886) he's identified as Henry Du Pré Labouchère, Truth'''s editor, but since Labouchère died in 1912 that's no answer to your question. We're perhaps looking at a William Hickey kind of franchise. --Antiquary (talk) 09:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
I think it must have been a William Hickey-type of situation, and also it's clear more than one paper had a Scrutator. Sidebotham was Sunday Times, and others used the name there. The Morning Leader also had a Scrutator. I've now had a chance to look at some of the columns in Truth. Some appear under the name "A Truthful Tory", which was an acknowledged "William Hickey". Others do not have a byline. The 1929 Truth obituary of Robert Augustus Bennett, "until recently the editor of Truth", says his earliest contributions (he started writing for Truth in 1884) included occaisional "Scrutator" articles. So "a Truth journalist" is probably as close as we will get, absent the files. DuncanHill (talk) 09:56, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Columnists need not be involved in the process of presenting of news, so I'm not sure every columnist would be considered a journalist. "A Truth columnist" may be a mere appropriate label. ​‑‑Lambiam 10:19, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
A journalist need not be involved in the process of presenting of news either! OED journalist "One who earns his or her living by editing or writing for newspapers, magazines, etc", dated to 1693. OED columnist "Originally U.S. One who writes a ‘column’ in the newspaper press. In the U.S. sometimes with the jocular spelling colyumist. Dated to 1920. DuncanHill (talk) 10:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
I agree that that's the British usage, at any rate, of journalist. I believe I've even come across newspaper cartoonists being so described, though crossword compilers, hmm, that might be pushing it. If we're dipping into the OED I'll add scrutator, "one who examines or investigates", so an obvious choice for any writer of political or social comment, whether in Truth'' or elsewhere. --Antiquary (talk) 12:45, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |
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Gary Byington | Short description | Gary Byington (born November 18, 1957) is an American former professional stock car racing driver who competed in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour from 2016 to 2021.
Byington has previously competed in the Modified Racing Series and the EXIT Realty Modified Touring Series. |
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Gary Byington | NASCAR | NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) |
Gary Byington | Whelen Modified Tour | Whelen Modified Tour
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour results Year Car owner No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pts Ref 2016 Wade Cole 38 Chevy TMP STA WFD STA TMP RIV NHA MND STA TMP BRI RIV OSW SEE 32nd 64 Linda Rodenbaugh NHA STA TMP 2017 MYR THO STA LGY THO RIV NHA STA THO BRI SEE OSW RIV NHA STA THO 57th 30 2020 Gary Byington 30 Chevy JEN WMM WMM JEN MND TMP NHA STA TMP 28th 118 2021 MAR STA RIV JEN OSW RIV NHA NRP STA BEE OSW RCH RIV STA 48th 39 |
Gary Byington | References | References |
Gary Byington | External links | External links
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1981 NBA season | '''1981 NBA season''' | 1981 NBA season may refer to:
1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets in the 1981 NBA Finals, 4–2. This was Larry Bird’s first championship.
1981–82 NBA season, featuring the Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1982 NBA Finals, 4–2. This was Isiah Thomas' rookie season. |
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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2025 May 4 | "Could I have..." | "Could I have..."
I was taught that the polite way to ask for something in a grocery or take-away food shop was "Could I have such and such please." But the indolent youth of today seem to insist on saying "Could I get such and such please", which to me is an abomination and smacks of uncouth Americanisation. Or am I being too harsh? Are there regional differences, as I live in one of the better parts of England! 2A00:23C7:533:3C01:190F:C79:C9D2:D057 (talk) 12:14, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Seems to me if a customer says "can I get" and the employee brings it to them, they can walk out witĥ it without paying.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:17, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Undoubtedly American, and uncouth. DuncanHill (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
I have plenty of get-off-my-lawn peeves of my own, but this is about the least motivated one I can imagine. What in the world is less polite about "get" compared to "have"??? One seems to emphasize the process of acquiring the item versus the state of possessing it, but that's about the only difference I can see. They're both peculiar circumlocutions, being in the conditional mood and asking whether something is possible rather than asking for the thing. Paraphrasing, it's something like "under unspecified but likely false conditions, would a possible world exist in which I have/acquire the item under discussion?" The answer "yes" does not seem to be an agreement to provide the item, merely an agreement that under such conditions, such a possible world would exist. --Trovatore (talk) 19:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Starting either sentence with "May I" would be better. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:06, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
With "may", literally speaking, you're asking for permission to have/acquire the item. That doesn't make a lot of sense either. It's usually not about permission; you're requesting a service from the other person. --Trovatore (talk) 20:10, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Where are we, 1813 or something? It's all predicated on what the barrista asks. If she says "What can I get you?", the easy, simple and polite answer is just "A flat white, please." Martinevans123 (talk) 20:52, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Customer: "Can I get a flat white?" Waitress: "Not here, but I can get one for you. If you want to get it yourself go home." DuncanHill (talk) 21:11, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
thumb|"Hey Miss, can I get a flat white?" "Naw, honey, you ain't gettin' nuffin'"
Martinevans123 (talk) 21:19, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
"Get" is one of the most overloaded verbs in the English language. I expect in any random large dictionary you'll find at least a dozen meanings. To be fair, a lot of those will be as part of phrasal verbs, which isn't under discussion here.
But one of the core meanings is "receive" or "acquire". When the barista gives you a coffee, you do get it. Otherwise how would you drink it? --Trovatore (talk) 21:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
You just don't get it, do you? DuncanHill (talk) 21:36, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
I get that you're trying to defend an indefensible position. --Trovatore (talk) 21:37, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
That British English and American English work differently? DuncanHill (talk) 21:50, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
That there's something inherently rude about saying "get a cup of coffee". --Trovatore (talk) 22:14, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Uncouth. OED: "unfamiliar or strange... odd, uncomely, awkward, or clumsy... awkward and uncultured". I never said "inherently rude". It is, however, inherently rude to say I said something which I did not. DuncanHill (talk) 22:42, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
To be fair, the original comment did (I presume half-jokingly) call us get-users "indolent", it wouldn't be too farfetched to interpret that disdain as being a result of finding the phrasing (and its perceived lack of manners) rude. GalacticShoe (talk) 07:51, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
The youth in my part of Australia seem to say "Can I please have....", which seems somehow wrong to my ageing ears. HiLo48 (talk) 07:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
"May I please have" is better. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
"Can" (or "could") is appropriate if there is some question of pracicality. —Tamfang (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
My closest friend, born 1955 and raised in Beverly Hills (on the wrong side of the tracks), says "can I get". I, raised in Illinois, would never say that. —Tamfang (talk) 21:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Near the end of Animal House, one guy walks into a store, goes to the counter, and says, "May I have 10,000 marbles please?" ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
You must live in an upper class neighborhood. Here, in the streets, the kids say "Give me x, y, and z." No niceties like "could I" or "please". Viriditas (talk) 23:26, 16 May 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2025 May 4 | Hey, lady ... | Hey, lady ...
I was in a shop on Saturday, second in the queue. The woman in front was served, paid, and left. I stepped up, and discovered she had left her glasses on the ledge below the counter. I was moved to call out to her, and I was just about to yell "Hey, lady, you've forgotten your glasses" but I realised that would sound crass and vulgar, so I said "Hey, madam, ...". She heard me, and came back for her glasses, thanking me.
As I was basking in the sunlight of my kindness, I reflected that as a child, I was taught to refer to women as ladies, and that has pretty much always been my way. Ladies are obviously women, but there's something not quite right about referring to them as such. Don't ask me to explain it, it's subtle and probably culturally complex. Yet, to call out "Hey, lady" in public would be an even worse social sin. Nobody is ever called "Madam" these days (not even Ethel Merman), but that seemed the only choice I had left in that moment of crisis and high drama.
Is there a term for a word choice that is preferred in one context (not women, but ladies) but contraindicated in another (Not "hey, lady", but "hey, madam")? (Please don't get into whether "hey" was an appropriate choice, or whether it irretrievably outed me as the vulgarian I spend my life trying not to be.) -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:22, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
This is not quite responsive, but it brings to mind a memory. One time I was out to dinner with my mother and sister. I think we were taking my mom out for her birthday or something. The waiter kept addressing my mom as "lady". It was clear to my sister and me that this was intended to be a term of respect — the waiter seemed likely to be Mexican (as in from Mexico, not just of Mexican ancestry) and was perhaps thinking in Spanish, translating the title "Señora". But it didn't come across to my Mississippian mother. --Trovatore (talk) 00:02, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Some subtlety of politeness or manners. And I would use "ma'am", not "madam", which is kind of old-fashioned. For whatever reason, calling a woman just "lady" has come to be kind of insulting, even though referring to them indirectly as "ladies" still works. Similarly, I wouldn't call a man "mister", but "sir". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:23, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Looking at the various uses of "lady", it occurs to me that in your context, even better than "ma'am", though much more old-fashioned, could be "me lady". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:27, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
The use of ma'am versus madam varies by region; see Wiktionary:ma'am#Usage notes. ​‑‑Lambiam 09:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I take it that the establishment in which this incident occurred was not one in which "Coo-ee, Sheila!" would have been appropriate? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.101.226 (talk) 06:36, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
There are no places where such a thing would be said. By anyone. Ever. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 08:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I would just have said "excuse me" to get her attention. --Viennese Waltz 06:58, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I recall once when the women in the office were referring to each other as "girls". Like a good wannabe feminist, I questioned that, and the answer was, "Women are 'old'!" ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:58, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
But woe betide a man who calls them "girls" these days. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 08:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Grrlz ? ​‑‑Lambiam 09:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I would never, ever use "madam" due to one of its meanings having to do with procuring (prostitution). "Lady" is a bit unusual in these here parts, so IMO ma'am is the safest choice. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:27, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
"Hey, Lady, Hey"? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:24, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
I guess that's similar how to "colored person" is considered extremely offensive, while the correct term is "person of color". 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 15:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, aside from use at some high society events that I would never be invited to, calling a woman "madam" where I live would probably result in her slapping you. Or her husband/boyfriend (or brother or father) inflicting even more physical damage upon you. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 11:50, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Or old-fashioned formality, as with the opening lines of "Paperback Writer": "Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?" ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Well, sure, but some stuff hit differently depending on the mode of communication. The song is a quote from a letter and starting letters with Sir/Madam is not the same as starting a verbal conversation. For example, you wouldn't end your conversation with "With kindest regards..." either. Matt Deres (talk) 14:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
ISMO has a routine about being called "sir" and how it generally means you're in trouble somehow. It's funny because it's true. --Trovatore (talk) 16:01, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
In an early Simpsons episode, Homer longs for the situation of being called "Sir" without having "You're making a scene" appended. FWIW, I call and am called sir many times a day; it just seems to be standard address among coworkers here. Matt Deres (talk) 17:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Huh. What line are you in, if you don't mind sharing? --Trovatore (talk) 20:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
I think it's a regional thing. I have various American Facebook friends, some of whom called me "sir" when we first started interacting. I told them there was no need for such a deferential approach with me, but they said it's the norm where they live (mainly southern-ish states). -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:23, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Sure. I did a postdoc at North Texas. One of my colleagues had a four-year-old daughter, and he would address her with "yes, ma'am" from time to time. But Matt, if I'm not mistaken, is Canadian, though of course it's conceivable he could have moved to the Southern US. --Trovatore (talk) 21:37, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Nope, Canadian. A "sir" is going to be deferential by default, but this is not a worker to manager or employee to client kind of thing. And, AFAICT, the "ma'am" equivalent isn't used to the same degree. I do business analytics now, but most of my earlier jobs were more blue-collar and in those places "sir" was standard: between coworkers, manager to employee, you name it. "Catch the game last night?" "Yes, sir." It's hard to get perspective; maybe I just happened to work in a few places where that happened to have caught on, but I honestly started noticing it when I got to junior high. Before that, teachers were exclusively Ms/Miss/Mr/Mrs X, but in junior high, sir and ma'am suddenly became standard. That'd be mid-1980s, I guess. Matt Deres (talk) 01:19, 7 May 2025 (UTC) |
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Is there a term for a language class where speakers of two languages each learn the other's language? And is there a pedagogical tradition of this anywhere? 71.126.56.251 (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Language exchange seems somewhat close to what you have in mind, although the article doesn't look particularly good. --Wrongfilter (talk) 17:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
In Sweden, I have heard about tandem meetups, but they're rather just two persons meeting than regular classes. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 17:43, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Ahh, there even is a Wikipedia article; Tandem language learning. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:08, 5 May 2025 (UTC) |
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The title Dogtooth of the 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film clearly refers to the canine teeth: The (adult) children are told they are ready to leave home when they lose their first permanent canine (dogtooth).
Now, the theatrical release poster of the film appears to show a “dogtooth wave”. Basic mathematical waveforms include the sine wave, the triangular wave, the square wave, and the sawtooth wave. It’s tempting to play with the words and imagine a “dogtooth wave” (sounds a lot like “sawtooth wave”) shaped like two canine teeth pointing in opposite directions. And surely this is what the filmmakers are doing?
Indeed, in the release poster, a waveform very worthy of the “dogtooth wave” name appears in the same diagram as a sine-like wave. Surely this is intentional? Any references to confirm? --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 23:53, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
I Googled dogtooth poster explained and was told (among other things) "The Dogtooth poster, designed by Vasilis Marmatakis, features three intersecting lines, representing the distorted views of the film's protagonists, and a lot of negative space. This design choice is a visual representation of the characters' skewed perception of the world, a key theme in the film, according to an interview with Marmatakis. The lines also subtly evoke the shape of a dog's teeth, nodding to the film's title, according to Pixartprinting." Shantavira|feed me 13:20, 5 May 2025 (UTC) |
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Lilo (footballer, born 1902) | orphan | Manuel Rodríguez Pazó, better known as Lilo (8 April 1902 – 2 September 1972), was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celta de Vigo between 1923 and 1936. |
Lilo (footballer, born 1902) | Career | Career
Born on 8 April 1902 in the Galician town of Vigo, Lilo began his career playing as a right back for Germania, a team from the Vigo neighborhood of Couto, making his debut under the sticks only because his team's goalkeeper got injured, and he ended up enjoying so much that he signed for Club Ciosvín as a goalkeeper. In 1920, the 18-year-old Lilo joined Fortuna de Vigo, with whom he played for three years, until 1923, when it was merged with Real Vigo Sporting to form Celta de Vigo.
On 16 September 1923, the presentation match of Celta de Vigo was held at Coia, in a meeting between A and B teams, with Lilo starting for the latter team in a 2–0 loss, being beaten only by a penalty and an own goal. The goalkeeper of the A-team, Isidro Rodríguez, was thus the one selected for Celta's first official game against Boavista on 23 September (8–2), but following his controversial move to Deportivo de La Coruña, Lilo established himself as Celta's undisputed starting goalkeeper.
On 10 April 1924, Lilo played a friendly match for Celta against the Uruguay national team, who went on to win the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Together with Polo Pardo, the Clemente brothers (Juanito, Balbino), Ramón González, he was part of the newly-founded Celta team that won three Galician Championships in a row between 1923 and 1926. He went on to win a further four such titles in 1930, 1932, 1934, and 1935. In his last season at the club in 1935–36, Lilo did not play a single league match as Celta won the 1935–36 Segunda División, thus achieving promotion to the top flight for the first time in the club's history. |
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