@mixedlinguist And maybe stop to ask yourself: “Is what I’m about to write really applicable to the (large? diverse?) group that I’m about to label ‘the X’?”
@mixedlinguist No name but during travel, an experience that matches our stereotypes (exit hotel in Aix, hear accordion, see a girl ride by on a bike wearing a beret and carrying a baguette) reminds us of that scene in Hot Fuzz where they engineer such experiences for tourists.
@llmunro https://t.co/ZzzZTtXhUs is free, covers classics and other out of copyright (in the US) titles and some of the readers are very good. There are of course commercial services if you’re really committed (like me).
@derekbmiller Yep. Bookmarked that line as soon as I heard it. Also the part about the country he imagined moving back to was no longer there, possibly was never real.
@dialect Love these. Even better when the fact-free writing gives a specific time in the past when things were better and the next case dates from that time and mentions a still earlier time and so on.