Basically charisma (the rizz part)
Think of it like “cha-rizz-ma.” It’s just a slang abbreviation, using only the middle sound of “charisma.”
Fellow old guy here, in my early 40s. I had to figure out where “rizz” came from before it really clicked for me.
SQL is the language. Its name is also an acronym, for “Structured Query Language.”
They’re both acronyms, so yes? You always write acronyms in upper case.
Structured Query Language (SQL)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Some exceptions to the rule exist, like “Database” is usually abbreviated as Db in acronyms. For instance, IMDb (Internet Movie Database).
Although considering database is a singular word, it makes sense to lower-case the middle letter of the word, as it wouldn’t be capitalized in the spelled-out word anyway.
EDIT: On a related note (and one that will really show my age), I always capitalize the i in “Internet.”
When I was a kid, and before the Internet was publicly accessible, we referred to a collection of internetworked computers as an “internet.”
Then the “World Wide Web” (WWW) became a big deal in the mid-'90s, which was the first publicly accessible internet of computers and servers. It was super primitive and took like 10 minutes just to load a small image on a mostly-text webpage. We referred to this new global internet as “The Internet.” This was the biggest and most ambitious attempt at building an interconnected series of computers, so we called it The Internet (capital “i”) to differentiate it from a regular internet.
Fast forward several decades… for so long, the Internet has been such a commonly used term to refer to the World Wide Web. It’s completely taken over the word; we don’t really refer to small computer networks as internets anymore. So there’s no point in differentiating between the two.
But I remember, and I still keep up the old habit of capitalizing when I’m referring to THE Internet, versus a smaller network of computers.
when I went to France I wanted the opportunity to practise it.
My wife’s biggest frustration in France was that she wanted to practice her French, but everyone picked up on her American accent and immediately switched to English. She rarely got more than a sentence out.
My experience being stationed in Germany with the US military, about 30 mins from the French border:
A coworker of mine complained about his visit to Paris because every single French person he tried to speak to either ignored him, turned their nose up at him, or was just rude to him. He only spoke English and they all seemed offended when he tried to get their attention in English.
My wife and I took several years of French in high school, and whereas neither of us could hold a proper conversation, we knew enough to ask directions, order from a menu, or request help.
Every time we started off a conversation in French, the French people would immediately switch to English and help us out. They were very kind to us.
We learned that if you make an effort to speak their language, most French people are very helpful. But if you just assume they’ll speak English, they’re likely to be offended and won’t help you out.
One time in Berlin, my wife tried to speak German to a guy at a tourist shop and he immediately switched into French. Apparently, my wife has a heavy French accent to her German. She was able to finish the conversation in French.
My first car was a 1991 Honda Ascot. I bought it in 2003 in Japan, when I was stationed there with the US military. I bought it off a fellow service member who was leaving the country, for $1,000. I gave it to another service member for free when I bought a better car a year later.
I officially feel old now. I know Lisa Kudrow from the TV show Friends. It blows my mind to see someone reference her in a modern voice acting role instead of her most well-known acting role.
I use a VPN that won’t load catbox images for some reason. If I turn it off, catbox starts working again.
Ken Cheng is a satire account, poking fun at the ridiculous “business first, personal welfare second” bootlickers on LinkedIn.
The fact that people can’t tell if he’s satirizing or being serious is kind of a sad glimpse into our capitalist society today.
She’s horny and on the pill, so no chance of getting pregnant… unless Bruce wants that.
Note: the reason it looks especially phallic is because Norway is missing. Because Norway isn’t part of the European Union, and thus does not use Euros as their primary currency.