Explaining film to a kid that only knows digital cameras was not so easy. "You edit it by cutting long strips apart and taping it back together." "You have to go into a dark room and wash the film in chemical baths." Sounds like some sort of magic ritual.
Now I am wondering if I just think the look of film is better because that is what I watched when I was a kid. Maybe todays kids will think digital looks better.
In my native language it carries the context of semi-forcibly extracting information from someone, and English dictionaries seem to suggest the same meaning, but I see it used in literature and academic contexts in many ways that don't fit that definition. What am I missing?
As far as I am aware, this is not a common usage, and you could go a very long time before you encounter it again. Next time you encounter it will probably be on Hacker News.
Edit: After thinking about it some more, I believe probe and interrogate are closely related. Essentially, an interrogation consists of a number of probes for the purpose of discovery. Normally, we think of an interrogation as being verbal, but in this case the interrogation is physical and consisting of a series of probing movements.
In a typical verbal interrogation, the investigator or detective will ask probing questions.
It’s definitely a less common usage but as you say it has the sense of questing or probing or feeling out. For me it belongs to a higher register of language, it’s a word I might use in that sense when writing a report or a formal email or something of that nature.
IIRC though the knowledge of the existence of a narwhal would likely have penetrated to vienna by then, so I bet some people correctly identified it.
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> "The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight" is a catchphrase that was created for Redditors to identify themselves in public places. It is used in fanart, rage comics, and is often referenced as an inside joke in Reddit threads.
Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-narwhal-bacons-at-midnigh... (mildly not safe for work, like all knowyourmeme articles).