my fav lingustics coffee table book
ostensibly for kids but it's beautiful, comprehensive, and (most importantly) APPEARS TO HAVE NO MAJOR INACCURACIES
and the script examples aren't broken!
(the bar is distressingly low for pop linguistics books)
The word I'm hoping to add to common English speech is howmanyeth, literal translation of that lovely Tamil word ethanavadhu. Example: "Shubman Gill is the howmanyeth batter to score twin hundreds in an Edgbaston Test?" Don't know what other languages have a similar word.
Audino is really funny
> rare encounter
> literally heals you as its opening “attack”
> gives a base yield of 2x average exp
> does nothing except look at you like this
every time i listen to an intimacy coordinator talk about their job and their experience with some actors, it just makes me more mad that many ppl think that it isnt necessary to have one. they are so important!!
There are about to be many more stories like this.
"McCreary, 64, was told that his benefits now required that he have a job. "I don't understand what job I can get," McCreary said. "I can't walk. I can hardly breathe. What job am I going to get?"
https://t.co/Bbw5BtdJIN
Benfit cuts always kill disabled people first. Reformers claim theyll catch ppl taking advantage but theres almost no one TO catch. Meanwhile, we let health insurance and drug companies commit fraud every single day. Policing everyday people has never been the solution
Massive cuts at Parks Canada.
Meanwhile, surviving staff will have to deal with big demand since Carney renewed the pass to make these Parks free!!
Such a classic CEO-style move to think workers will just ~figure it out~ as you actively make their job WAY harder to save a buck
Once I told my doc that I won’t book an apt unless I’m between a 4&6. Less isn’t worth it & more is too hard to sit in a waiting room
She laughed & told me that she had wrote herself a note to add 2-3 to what I say and showed me this
I personally recommend referencing the Mankoski Pain Scale. The markers it uses are more objective than the traditional one with the faces. It’s also been shown to be more effective for autistic and other neurodiverse people.
fuuuuuck.... they're doing a second act ironic reprise of my "i want" song. they're twisting the lyrics around to take on a new, crueler meaning. they're shifting my leitmotif into a different key. they got my ass.
people tell neurodivergent people "no one is coming to save you" as if it's supposed to light a fire of bullshitted inspiration under their ass when it just makes them want to kill themselves instead