@peemee Is the car easier to drive than your old one?
@japchap Maybe we need another tier in the conception of ownership….in the legal and moral senses. Something like co-ownership. But that might be opening a Pandora's Box of complexity.
@peemee And he was a doctor, not a nurse? I wonder what else he or she has been mucking up.
@japchap Hopefully it won't catch you unawares and you'll be able to transition elegantly.
@hazardwarning The Apple (Oxford) dictionary mentions 'tortuce' as a late Middle English spelling. It's easy to see how that could become tortoyse or tortoise. Anyway, I think I have over the years pronounced it all three ways (the last sound can be like an ess or a zed). My pronunciation is influenced by whatever I'm hearing. I just can't help feeling that tortus is a lazy way of saying it.
@japchap Have you seen A.I. eat into your line of work? Might it take business away from you?
I can't seem to think of anything interesting to say anymore. All I can think of is stupid things like why do some people pronounce tortoise like tortus?