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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (19 children)

Can someone cue (or is it queue? que?) me in on what all the fuzz is this time around? I feel like I hear a pitchfork mob at least once a year without actually noticing anything different.

Just for the record: I'm not claiming that there's much ado about nothing, merely that I am severely out of the loop as usual.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

"Clue me in" is the idiom. ~~Que~~ Cue is closer than queue, if you were an actor and needed a hint on where to go next.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A cue is a marker point, usually for media production. It can be used in several contexts.

Queue would be a line, more or less.

I'm being reductive, of course. Just trying to help people who are too lazy to Google or look at a dictionary.

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Queue is also the playing stick used in billiards Edit: Queue

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In French, yes. In English, it's a pool cue.

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

It probably originates from French

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They should probably speak French if they're going to use the French term.

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