australia recently switched away from this back to phonics but i genuinely think there needs to be a national apology to people who were taught using this method. it's that bad.
Best plural forms ranked:
1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac)
2) ending in -i (magi)
3) is to es (oases)
4) suppletive (people)
5) vowel changes (geese)
6) f to ves (thieves)
7) adding en (oxen)
8) no change (moose)
9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies)
10) adding s
Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. https://t.co/iqnoACNt6z
Accuracy matters in Austen because society itself is a central character. To not even attempt to portray the society on which she comments defangs her brilliance.
Notably, this is why Clueless is such an excellent adaptation.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
“I've been reading Pride & Prejudice on and off all my life and it doesn't wear out a bit. Her books have only two faults and both are damnable: they are too few and too short.” — C. S. Lewis, private letter, 06 September, 1949