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Accidental Tech Podcast

661: Intimate and Regimented

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, I have solved Apple's TV naming problem.

0:21.5

We can't talk about this now. That's part of the actual show. We're going to talk about it now because honestly, I don't think we're going to get to it, and this is probably all it deserves. We're going to get to it. I spent too much time on it for it to get to it. We got quotes from Eddie Q. If not this show, then next show. All right. I'll have to save my idea for another time then.

0:22.7

Oh, burned.

0:21.5

I mean, save it for idea for another time then.

0:41.0

Oh, burned. I mean, save it for when we cover the topic. It's not that good of an idea. Well. It's good enough for a pre-show. It's not good enough for the actual show. It's good enough from both of them, Marco. It's not. It's really not. You'll see. Let's do some follow-up. Apparently,

0:39.7

the Scots are still perturbed. Adam 1 writes, I could hear every Scotsman in the world screaming

0:44.8

in pain when you said English is the native language of Scotland. I'm afraid my cousins over

0:49.7

the pond are swearing oaths right now. It is true that English is the practical language in

0:53.6

Scotland's largest cities, but you don't have to go far out of the cities before the traditional and historic language of the Scots begins to creep into communication. Scottish Gaelic, excuse me, the true language, true language of the Scotsman, man, I'm getting tongue-tied, tongue-tied, oh my word, just leave it all in, just leave it all in. It's fine. We're doing live. It's getting tongue twide over here.

1:11.4

Tongue twilight.

1:27.8

It's still spoken in the highlands and the rural areas of the west. And even where English is more common, many English speakers might not be able to understand much of what is said. The practical tongue is often a creole of English and Gaelic. Quick aside, I didn't realize that Creole had a lowercase version.

1:28.7

I only knew of the uppercase Creole from the Louisiana area. So I learned something today. Anyways, going back to

1:34.0

what Adam said, all that said, regardless of where you go, no Scotsman would ever identify themselves

1:38.7

as English in any way. Additionally, Justin Monroe, Merrington writes, there are three official languages in

1:45.0

Scotland, Scots, a Germanic language spoken in the lowlands, which split off from Middle English

1:49.5

around 600 AD, English or Scottish English, which is a dialect that borrows quite a few words

1:54.5

from Scots, confusing lots of people who don't realize Scots as a language, and Gaelic, the Celtic,

1:59.5

Celtic, whatever language, most common, thank you, most commonly spoken in the Western Highlands and Isles. So there you go. I knew it wasn't right. I stopped myself in mid-sentence, but I didn't, when I talked about it, but I didn't know the, I didn't know what the actual answer was, so now we do. Uh, coming back to Recognition Corner, Christian Healer writes, I'm a hiring manager, and we are hiring for a technical consulting role. I joined a Zoom call with a candidate who is wearing a black ATP polo shirt. First of all, excellent taste with the polo, I approve. Uh, we did the usual interview questions, but I asked him at the end, who is your favorite podcast host? After having a five-minute ATP discussion, giving the correct answer, we offered a job same day.

2:34.7

To which I replied privately to Christian,

2:36.7

I am so glad that I got him a job,

2:38.7

even though we all know

2:40.1

the correct answer was probably John.

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