Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen

• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Square in carpentry is used a little differently. It includes rectangles, and is more about the corners being 90 degree right angles. In fact, a carpenters square is a tool that is triangle shaped!

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  • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not a carpenter and not a native speaker, but I would’ve thought that meaning only applied to the adjective (this window is square) and not the noun (that windows is a square).

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  • TunaLobster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love using a speed square! Such a great tool!

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love woodworking, and many years ago when I first trying to get some tools together, with very, very little money to my name, a friend of a friend gifted me a bunch of stuff, but it was all metric. My speed square was the only non metric tool I had (I’m in the States). Took me forever to find a metric speed square I could afford. Lol. It suuuuuucked doing the conversion for everything. Lol

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, TIL.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s always weird when a particular hobby or industry uses a common term in an unique or uncommon way.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To be fair, i don’t think it’s super standard to say “they were all gonna be squares” plural like that. It would be more correct to use it singularly there I think.

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every square is a rectangle but the other way around.

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