Base 38 = GN8GS9I

Today I just want to celebrate having the type of friends who would work out what your name would be in base 2 to 61, starting from the assumption that "sannse" is a number in base 62.

Well, OK, maybe just one friend that would do that. But it's still cool.

In another case of that strange synchronicity, he also quoted the old joke about people who know binary, just two days after I explained the same joke to my mother.

Parlez-vous sprechen English?

I'm highly embarrassed at my lack of language skills. I remember a school French exam, where I repeatedly told the examiner that "J'habite dans la mer"

So I totally understand anyone who gets fed up with native English speakers expecting everyone to speak English... and this made me giggle:

Of course, the link came from a native German speaker. Thanks Avatar! (I think...)

Received Pronunciation

Living on-line, and working for an American company, I tend to flow between British English and American English depending on where I am. I usually remember whether I'm carrying a handbag or a purse, and whether I'm walking on a pavement or a sidewalk. But pronunciation of some words is harder to remember. "Router" is one that got me laughed at recently... is it "root-er" or "r-ow-ter"?

Another is pronunciation problem is "Linux". But here I'm pleased to find that my laughably "American" pronunciation is the RP. After all, the man who invented the word should know.

Credit: Uberfuzzy