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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, you’re right. Silly me.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only there were some way to fix your earlier comment

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And invalidate the person who corrected me? No. I’ll live with my shame. I’m pedantic about writing, spelling, grammar. I made a mistake. I’ll live with it.

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  • unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    now kiss

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• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Que?

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:

  www.etymonline.com/word/cue

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  • xionzui@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not an “alternative spelling” if the words deviated 300 years ago.

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh, in this circumstance, when you watch a video on YouTube, you’re literally adding it to a queue. Both queue and cue are appropriate.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not really.

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